DAMASCUS: Syria said Saturday that its army had taken control of a military base in the country’s northeast after forces from a US-led international coalition against the Daesh group withdrew.
In recent months, Syria’s new Islamist government has expanded its control to parts of the country’s northeast previously controlled by US-allied Kurdish forces.
It has also formally joined the anti-Daesh coalition, while American forces have pulled out of several bases in the country.
The Syrian army has “taken over the Rmeilan base in Hasakah province after the withdrawal of forces from the international coalition,” state television quoted a Syrian defense ministry official as saying.
In recent months, American forces have withdrawn from the Al-Tanf base in the southeast and Shadadi in the northeast, and had begun withdrawing from the Qasrak base, also in Hasakah province.
