White House: Biden to Address Syria Crisis at 1:00 PM – US President Joe Biden is set to address the situation in
Syria on Sunday, the White House announced, following a crisis meeting about
the sudden overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by Islamist-led rebels.
The televised remarks, scheduled for 1:00 pm (1800 GMT),
will focus on the “latest developments in Syria.”
So far, the United States has taken a restrained approach,
while world leaders have called for peace, praising Assad’s fall and advocating
for a political solution to stabilize the war-torn nation.
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Earlier, Biden held a meeting with his national security
team to receive an update on the situation in Syria, as reported by National
Security Council spokesman Sean Savett on X.
Assad’s reported departure came less than two weeks after
the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a swift rebel offensive,
breaking long-established frontlines in Syria’s civil war.
Early Sunday, HTS
announced it had entered Damascus and that Assad had fled, sparking
celebrations nationwide and the looting of Assad’s opulent residence.
The US military currently has around 900 troops in Syria and
2,500 in Iraq as part of the international coalition formed in 2014 to combat
the Islamic State.
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The US has regularly targeted sites in Syria, including
those linked to Iranian-backed militias, with Iran being a key ally of Assad’s
regime.
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