The country has been under Islamist control since the overthrow of Bashar Assad\u2019s government last year<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has said that he is \u201cvery satisfied\u201d with Syria\u2019s new government.
\nA coalition led by jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a regional offshoot of Al-Qaeda, captured Damascus and displaced former President Bashar Assad late last year.
\n\u201cThe United States is very satisfied with the results displayed\u201d since the takeover, Trump said on Truth Social on Monday.
\nSyrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who once led HTS, is \u201cworking diligently to make sure good things happen, and that both Syria and Israel will have a long and prosperous relationship,\u201d he said.
\nIt is important that West Jerusalem not \u201cinterfere with Syria\u2019s evolution into a prosperous State,\u201d Trump added.
\nJust days earlier, Israeli media reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sustained casualties after a clash with gunmen in the south of Syria, where West Jerusalem annexed a strip of land near the occupied Golan Heights last year.<\/p>\n
The area was also recently the target of joint US-Syrian operations.
\nUS forces and the Syrian Interior Ministry destroyed more than 15 caches of weapons and drugs belonging to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in the south of the country over the last week, CENTCOM reported on Sunday.
\nAl-Sharaa promised his support against IS during his visit to Washington earlier this month.
\nThe new Syrian government has struggled to rein in sectarian violence since taking over; thousands of people from the Druze, Alawite, and Christian communities have reportedly been killed in sporadic outbursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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