US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump “personally” engaged with Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara to halt fighting between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). “The President engaged personally not once but twice with Al Shara, and he said stop the fighting so that we can move the ISIS prisoners that are there,” Mr Rubio told a press conference with Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico. The US last week completed the transfer of nearly 7,000 suspected ISIS fighters to Iraq from prisons and camps in north-east Syria as the Syrian government extended its control into the previously SDF-held area. Rubio said Trump told the Syrian President that thousands of ISIS prisoners could have broken out and created havoc if the fighting between the government and SDF continued.
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