Syria has stepped up intelligence-sharing with the US in an attempt to boost ties with Washington and relieve pressure from Israel, a security source said after joint raids were carried out against ISIS.
Information provided by Syrian intelligence was behind last week's raids on 15 ISIS weapon caches in the outskirts of Damascus and southern Syria. The US Central Command stockpiles were destroyed in the "combined operation".
It was the second joint operation between the US and Syria's new government to be made public, after US special envoy Tom Barrack signalled that the arrest of an ISIS operative near Damascus in October was also carried out co-operatively.
Mr Barrack met Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara in Damascus on Monday to discuss "recent developments in
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