welcomed at the White House<\/a> by US President Donald Trump on Monday.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
Al-Mustafa said a \u201cpolitical cooperation declaration\u201d signed by Damascus with the international coalition confirms Syria\u2019s role in \u201ccombating terrorism and supporting regional stability\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe agreement is political and until now contains no military components,\u201d he wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n
The agreement makes Syria the 90th country to join the coalition, which aims to prevent foreign fighters from joining ISIL\u2019s ranks and eliminating the remaining elements of the group from across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
The announcement was expected. A spokesperson for Syria\u2019s Ministry of Interior had announced on Saturday, as al-Sharaa was set to arrive in the US for his meeting with Trump, that nationwide preemptive operations were carried out targeting ISIL cells.<\/p>\n
According to state-run Al-Ikhbariah TV, Syrian security forces carried out 61 raids, with 71 people arrested and explosives and weapons seized.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Reuters news agency quoted unnamed officials as saying that Syria had foiled two ISIL plots to assassinate al-Sharaa.<\/p>\n
The senior Syrian security official and senior Middle Eastern official said the assassination plots were foiled over the past few months.<\/p>\n
They asserted that the schemes underline the direct threat that al-Sharaa\u00a0faces as he tries to consolidate power in a fragmented country that has been devastated by 14 years of civil war.<\/p>\n
The Syrian leader was praised by Trump during their meeting at the White House as he secured a six-month suspension of US sanctions against his country.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old president toppled the former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December in a swift armed offensive.<\/p>\n
He formerly led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed group that was an affiliate of al-Qaeda. He was taken off Washington\u2019s \u201cterror\u201d list<\/a> last week, cancelling a $10m reward for his capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syrian President al-Sharaa, recently dropped from global \u2018terror\u2019 list, pledges cooperation in combating armed group. Published On 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,129,3,1207,14351,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-284950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-middle-east","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-syria","12":"tag-syrias-war","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-canada","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}