If Syria is left unprotected, “I think ISIS fighters would enter back into the mainstream,” Austin said ... As the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, advanced against Assad last month ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an unannounced trip to Syria in 2017 where she met with the now-deposed dictator ...

The U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic State group from reconstituting as a major threat following the ouster of Bashar ... Secretary Lloyd Austin told The ...