US President Joe Biden will meet with his national security advisers on Sunday on Syria, where Islamist-led rebels announced they had captured Damascus and ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
The United States has so far been muted in its response, as other world leaders have praised Assad's fall while urging peace and encouraging a political solution to stabilize the war-torn country.
“The President will meet with his national security team this morning to receive the latest information on the situation in Syria,” National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett posted on Twitter.
News of Assad's departure comes less than two weeks after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group challenged the Assad family's rule of more than five decades with a lightning rebel attack, Which broke the long frozen front in the country's civil war.
Early Sunday, they announced they had entered Damascus and Assad had fled, prompting celebrations across the country and vandalism of Assad's stately home.
The U.S. military has about 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq as part of an international coalition established in 2014 to help combat the Islamic State jihadist group.
It has regularly attacked targets linked to Iranian-backed militias in the country. Tehran was a major supporter of the Assad government.
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