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Pro-Regime Syrian Forces Take Control Of At Least Two Villages Near Iraq Border

A U.S. official confirmed to NPR that pro-regime forces took control of two villages near Syria's border with Iraq where Kurdish-led forces are in control.
A soldier in Syria's President Bashar al-Assad forces near the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus. Syria's government captured at least two villages from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces east of the Euphrates River near the border with Iraq.

The Syrian army said via state media Sunday that it had captured four villages from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces near Syria's border with Iraq on the eastern shore

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