Tag: USA: Plug in Syria

NOVANEWS Buses in the Qara area of Syria’s Qalamoun region carry members of the Islamic State group (ISIS) and their families as part of an unprecedented deal to end three years of jihadist presence, Aug. 28, 2017. Under the evacuation deal, several hundred jihadists and their families on both sides of the border are to be transported to Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, the country’s only province still under ISIS control. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Special Report By Graham E. Fuller EVERY ONCE in a while President Trump manages to get something right. This time it is the decision to call off the broad U.S. covert assistance to the Syrian opposition forces fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Assad has been notoriously bru...