{"id":252283,"date":"2025-11-09T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:09:09","slug":"syria-carries-out-preemptive-raids-against-islamic-state-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252283\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria carries out preemptive raids against Islamic State | Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Syria has carried out nationwide preemptive operations targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/islamic-state\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic State<\/a> cells, a spokesperson for the interior ministry said on Saturday, as the country\u2019s president arrived in the US for talks with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Syrian security forces carried out 61 raids, with 71 people arrested and explosives and weapons seized, the spokesperson told state-run Al Ekhbariya TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The raids came as the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, arrived in Washington for a planned meeting with Trump, a day after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. He is expected to join an anti-Islamic State US-led coalition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The US state department and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, said this month that Sharaa would \u201chopefully\u201d sign an agreement to join the international US-led alliance against Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The state department\u2019s decision on Friday to remove Sharaa from the blacklist was widely expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A spokesperson said Sharaa\u2019s government had been meeting US demands, including on working to find missing Americans and on eliminating any remaining chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Thursday, Washington led a vote by the Security Council to remove UN sanctions against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Formerly affiliated with al-Qaida, Sharaa\u2019s group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, was delisted as a terrorist group by Washington in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Washington is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact the US is brokering between Syria and Israel, six sources familiar with the matter previously told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A US administration official also previously said Washington was constantly evaluating its necessary posture in Syria to effectively combat Islamic State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria has carried out nationwide preemptive operations targeting Islamic State cells, a spokesperson for the interior ministry said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-252283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}