Syria

The camp housed around 23,500 detainees, many wives or widows of ISIS fighters and their children, who had been in de facto detention for years.

The main mission of the U.S. troops in Syria is to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State.

U.S forces carried out 10 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria between Feb. 3 and Thursday in retaliation for a December ambush that killed two American soldiers.

The latest investments mark the largest such announcement since the U.S. lifted sanctions on Syria in December.

Syrian Petroleum Co.’s deal with U.S. energy giant Chevron and the Qatar-based Power International Holding was signed in Damascus in the presence of the U.S.’s special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack.

A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in their fight for autonomy.

U.S.-backed SDF forces and the Syrian government have traded blame over the escape Monday of ISIS members from the Shaddedeh prison on the border with Iraq.

The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Kurdish-led fighters and forces loyal to the government of President Ahmad al-Sharaa.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that it asked for help from a U.S. coalition base but that it "did not intervene, despite repeated calls for intervention."