The country has been under Islamic control since the overthrow of Bashar Assad's government last year
</p><div><p>US President Donald Trump has said he is <em>“very satisfied”</em> with the new Syrian government since it took power.
A coalition led by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a regional offshoot of al-Qaeda, captured Damascus late last year and ousted former President Bashar Assad.
“The United States is very satisfied with the results shown” since the takeover, Trump said Monday on Truth Social.
The new Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, who once led HTS, is “I am working diligently to ensure that good things happen and that both Syria and Israel will have a long and prosperous relationship.” he said.
It is important that West Jerusalem does not do that “Disrupting Syria’s Evolution into a Prosperous State,” Trump added.
A few days earlier, Israeli media reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had suffered casualties after a clash with armed men in southern Syria, where West Jerusalem annexed a strip of land near the occupied Golan Heights last year.
The area was also recently the target of joint US-Syrian operations.
US forces and the Syrian Interior Ministry have destroyed more than 15 stockpiles of Islamic State (IS) weapons and drugs in the south of the country over the past week, CENTCOM reported on Sunday.
Al-Sharaa pledged his support against IS during his visit to Washington earlier this month.
Syria’s new government has struggled to contain sectarian violence since taking over, with sporadic outbreaks reportedly killing thousands of people from the Druze, Alawite and Christian communities.
