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      <text>U.S. officials say the United States Armed Forces will withdraw all remaining troops from Syria, formally ending its 12-year military presence in the country. </text>
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    <text>The United States announces that it will withdraw all remaining military troops from Syria, formally ending its 12-year military presence in the country. </text>
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      <text>The Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian transitional government extend their ceasefire by 15 days to facilitate the United States-backed transfer of Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq. </text>
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    <text>The Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian government extend their ceasefire by 15 days to facilitate the United States-backed transfer of Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq. </text>
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      <text>The U.S. military launches airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. </text>
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      <text>The United States military launches airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria. </text>
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    <text>The United States military launches airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. </text>
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    <text>United States-mediated talks between Israel and Syria focused on reviving the 1974 disengagement framework resume after a several-month hiatus, with Syria pressing for an Israeli withdrawal from territory entered after the fall of the Assad regime. </text>
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      <text> The United States says it has carried out airstrikes on 70 targets at multiple locations against ISIS in Syria, in retaliation for the December 2025 Palmyra attack. </text>
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      <date>2025-12-20</date>
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      <text> The United States says it has carried out airstrikes on 70 targets at multiple locations against ISIS in Syria. </text>
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      <text> The United States says it has carried out airstrikes on 70 targets at multiple locations against ISIS in Syria. [https:--www.bbc.com-news-articles-c5yq7zzw618o (BBC News)]Operation Hawkeye Strike</text>
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    <text>The United States and Jordan carry out airstrikes on 70 Islamic State targets at multiple locations in Syria, in retaliation for the December 2025 Palmyra attack. </text>
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    <text>United States president Donald Trump expands the country's existing travel ban by banning citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, and Syria, as well as those holding passports issued by the Palestinian Authority, from entering the country. He also imposes partial restrictions on citizens from 15 other countries. </text>
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      <text>Syrian foreign minister and former Al-Qaeda member Asaad al-Shaibani visits Washington, D.C. to attend meetings with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to meet with Israeli delegations and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, marking the first time a Syrian official has visited the United States in 25 years. </text>
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    <text>Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani visits Washington, D.C. to attend meetings with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to meet with Israeli delegations and U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio, marking the first time a Syrian official has visited the United States in 25 years. </text>
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    <text>US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will lift all sanctions imposed on Syria under the previous regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and expresses willingness to work with the Syrian transitional government. </text>
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      <text>Iraq announces that a senior leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in the Al Anbar Governorate during a joint operation between Iraqi security forces and the United States. </text>
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    <text>Iraq announces that the deputy head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, was killed in the Al Anbar Governorate during a joint operation between Iraqi security forces and the United States. </text>
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      <text>Foreign ministers and senior officers of Arab countries, the European Union, United States, United Kingdom and Turkey hold in Riyadh a series of diplomatic meetings focused on Syria. </text>
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    <text>Foreign ministers and senior officers of Arab countries, the European Union, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States hold a series of diplomatic meetings focused on Syria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. </text>
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  <text>The United States formally removes Syria from its designated state sponsors of terrorism list. </text>
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