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Trump’s Syria bombing campaigns differed from Obama’s primarily in target selection, legal and congressional posture, and tempo: , while . Analysts also record a post-2016 increase in strike frequency...
has publicly declared that will no longer serve as a staging ground for ian weapons and proxies, telling regional and Western audiences he will expel or deny Iran’s foothold and close former “weapons ...
Critics call or a U.S.-made construct because ’s tactical partnership with Kurdish forces against amplified Kurdish autonomy while stopping short of formal recognition or state-building—creating the a...
provides ongoing coverage of the but there is no clear, corroborated reporting in the provided sources that the Golan Heights have been “leased” to ; available reporting instead documents Israeli move...
Several Middle Eastern states that long hosted Palestinian refugees have experienced : saw the establish bases and launch cross‑border operations that provoked a state security crisis, ’s refugee camp...
Donald Trump presided over an operational shift in Syria that combined a more kinetic air campaign and looser battlefield discretion with episodic political reversals and retained elements of previous...
The Obama administration authorized U.S. military actions in at least seven countries during his presidency, principally via drone strikes, air campaigns, special-operations deployments, and support t...
President Obama paused planned strikes after the August 2013 chemical attack and sought congressional authorization, then accepted a Russia-brokered deal to dismantle Syria’s declared chemical arsenal...
President Donald Trump ordered or announced withdrawals of U.S. forces from parts of Syria on multiple occasions; his 2018–2019 and 2021 decisions are presented in reporting as abrupt, politically dri...
Barack Obama’s Syria policy from 2011–2017 drew persistent criticism on several fronts: critics argued his reluctance to militarily intervene after Assad’s atrocities , while others contended limited ...