Syria Says US-Led Coalition Withdraws From Al-Tanf Base
Syrian defense authorities said Thursday that the US-led coalition has pulled out of the al-Tanf military base at the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border junction, handing the site to Syrian army units after what Damascus described as coordinated arrangements between Syrian and US officials.
In a statement, Syria’s interim government said Syrian forces secured the base and its immediate perimeter before beginning to deploy across the surrounding border desert. Syrian officials added that border guard forces are expected to take over day-to-day responsibility for the area in the coming days.
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Al-Tanf has long been one of the coalition’s most strategically placed footholds in Syria, sitting at a crossroads used for surveillance of the eastern desert and movement along key supply corridors. The base also anchored the nearby “55-km zone,” a restricted area that helped shape access across a sparsely populated but geopolitically sensitive slice of territory.
The announcement lands as foreign militaries reassess their posture in Syria after years of conflict, shifting alliances, and periodic escalation involving Iranian-backed armed groups, Israel, and US forces. It also raises the immediate practical question of who controls what along a border triangle that has been an enduring flashpoint: the Syrian state, regional actors, and non-state networks have all competed for leverage there.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights linked the withdrawal to wider discussions over foreign deployments as regional dynamics continue to change—an acknowledgment that al-Tanf has never been just a base but a symbol of outside influence and a lever in Syria’s unfinished war.
