"I know in fact that I was a citizen. When I tried filing for a passport it was very easy. It came in 10 days," the Alabama woman told NBC News.

US President Donald Trump says a woman who left the US to become a propagandist for the Islamic State (IS) group will not be allowed to return.

Shamima Begum - the teenager who fled London to join Islamic State in Syria - has said being stripped of her British citizenship is "unjust".

The US and Israel’s Syria-related operations will not end despite the withdrawal of America troops from the country, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, reaffirming Washington’s ongoing commitment to Israel’s security.

President Vladimir Putin discussed the decision by phone on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Kremlin said.

Within two weeks Russia will deliver to Damascus an S-300 air defense system, previously suspended on a request by Israel. It comes as part of response to the downing of a Russian Il-20 plane amid an Israeli air raid on Syria.

Russia and Turkey have agreed to create a demilitarised buffer zone in Syria's Idlib province to separate government forces from rebel fighters based there.

Israeli forces were certain the Sukhoi jet they intercepted with Patriot missiles over the Golan Heights on Tuesday did not belong to the Russian Air Force, an IDF spokesman told media.

Syria said its jet was conducting an operation against "terrorist groups" when it was hit by Israeli fire, according to a state media report.

Four fighter jets and two helicopters tracked it, the military said.

US President Donald Trump has hailed a Supreme Court ruling upholding his travel ban which covers people from several Muslim-majority countries.

Russia and Israel coordinate their actions within Syria for the purpose of deconfliction

Israel fired dozens of rockets into Syria early on Thursday, hitting a radar installation and an ammunitions dump, Syrian state media reported after Israel's military said Iranian forces in Syria had shelled one of its outposts near the border.

The Syrian Centre for Scientific Research on the northeastern edge of Damascus was still smoldering on Saturday after it was hit by airstrikes overnight. USA TODAY

A MAN who worked to expose a secretive Russian mercenary group in Syria has been found dead after an unexplained fall.

U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley says new sanctions will be imposed on Russia. Buzz6

AS DONALD Trump announced “mission accomplished” after striking Syria, Vladimir Putin issued a bone-chilling warning.

The former U.S. ambassador to Syria weighs in on Friday's strikes.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a reported chemical attack in Syria was staged by foreign agents.

Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters Wednesday: "We stand ready to provide military options if they're appropriate as the president determined," according to The New York Times.