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https://one.sightlinemg.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/635781829452100990-dfn-syria-israeljpg.jpg?w=600600400The new administration will, no doubt, review and revise what has passed for a military campaign against ISIS in central and eastern Syria. The key question however is what, in the Syrian context, President Trump will do about the two principal malign influences he has identified in the Middle East: ISIS and Iran.