French President Emmanuel Macron invited Syria to join the “Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State” during his meeting with Syria’s transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, on the sidelines of the climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, 7 November, Macron said, “The war on terrorism remains a security priority for France,” adding, “We have not forgotten that the 2015 Paris attacks were planned in Syria, so this is also about the security of the French people.”
Macron said the Security Council’s decision on Thursday to lift al-Sharaa’s name and the Syrian Interior Minister’s name from the sanctions list confirms “the soundness of the strategy France adopted from the start in cooperation with Syria’s transitional president.” He noted that Paris is working with Damascus to “restore Syria’s territorial unity, combat terrorist groups and drug production, and facilitate the return of refugees.”
The French president added that Paris sees cooperation with the new Syrian government as “necessary to bolster regional security,” amid a period of opening up that the country has witnessed since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
Macron also welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, calling the step “symbolic and important” ahead of al-Sharaa’s expected visit to the White House next Monday.
Expected visit to Washington to join
Syria’s transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, is scheduled to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, 10 November.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in her 4 November briefing that President Trump will host the Syrian president at the White House on Monday.
According to U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, who spoke to Axios on 1 November, this will be the first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House and another major step in rebuilding U.S.–Syrian relations.
During the visit, President al-Sharaa is expected to sign Syria’s accession to the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State.
Joint operations between Syria and the Coalition
Syria’s Interior Ministry announced it had dismantled an Islamic State cell in Maadamiyat al-Qalamoun (Rif Dimashq governorate, southern Syria).
In a 19 October post on its official Facebook page, the ministry said the operation resulted in dismantling a three-man cell, noting that the first member was neutralized while attempting to detonate a suicide belt, the second later died of his wounds, and the third was arrested.
It explained that the operation was conducted jointly by the General Intelligence Directorate and the Internal Security Command in Rif Dimashq after close monitoring of the cell’s movements in the governorate’s northern countryside.
Although the ministry did not mention details indicating Coalition participation, Charles Lister, Director of the Syria Program at the Middle East Institute, said on X that the Coalition conducted its first airdrop in the city of al-Dumayr (Rif Dimashq governorate, southern Syria), resulting in the arrest of 47-year-old Ahmad Abdullah al-Masoud al-Badri.
He added that al-Badri was an Islamic State member who had been hiding in the Syrian desert for years and returned to the al-Dumayr area after the fall of the Assad regime.
On 25 July, U.S. forces carried out an operation against the Islamic State in the city of al-Bab (eastern Aleppo countryside, northern Syria), killing several IS members.
U.S. Central Command said on X that it conducted a strike in al-Bab, killing senior IS figure Diaa Zouba Mislah al-Herdani and his two sons, Abdullah Diaa al-Herdani and Abdulrahman Diaa al-Herdani, who were also members of the group.
CENTCOM said these individuals posed a threat to U.S. and Coalition forces as well as to the new Syrian government.
At the time, Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Aleppo, citing intersecting local sources, reported that the Syrian government, in partnership with Coalition forces, conducted the first joint operation against the Islamic State in al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
On 20 August, the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat IS conducted a joint airborne operation with government forces in the town of Atmeh (northern Idlib countryside, northwestern Syria).
Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Idlib reported then that the security operation lasted around two hours and resulted in the killing of an IS commander of Iraqi nationality.
Five people were also arrested during the operation and handed over to the Internal Security Forces in Atmeh.
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