Syrien und US -Außenpolitik: Ein versehentlich amerikanischer Sieg

In the latest edition of [*The Caravan*](https://www.hoover.org/publications/caravan), James Jeffrey walks readers through all the stages of US policy toward Syria from the start of its civil war in March 2011. Through the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, Jeffrey writes, US policy oscillated from straightforward arms transfers to rebel groups to a pivot toward confronting ISIS, later moving at various speeds between presidents toward countering growing Iranian influence and operational activity within the country. Going forward, Jeffrey says, the second Trump administration must now craft an entirely new Syria policy, but with Assad gone, Iranian agents expelled, and ISIS confined to tents in the desert, “all the US Syria goals of 2011–24 have been met.”