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Representatives from Syria — which officially joined the global coalition during a historic visit by Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s to Washington — attended a meeting on Monday of some officials from the 90-member coalition in Saudi Arabia.

“Regional solutions, shared responsibility. Syria’s participation in the D-ISIS Coalition meeting in Riyadh marks a new chapter in collective security,” Tom Barrack, the U.S. envoy to Syria, said in comments posted on X on Tuesday, using an acronym to refer to IS.

The U.S. military began transferring some of the about held in northeastern Syria last month following clashes between government forces and the SDF.

Monday's State Department statement said coalition members “underscored their readiness to work closely with the Syrian government” and encouraged members to provide direct support to Syrian and Iraqi efforts.

It said that in addition to the transfer of detainees to Iraq, the participants reaffirmed their priorities that include “dignified reintegration” of families from the al-Hol and Roj camps, in northeast Syria, to their communities of origin. Syria's government took over al-Hol in late January.

The camps house more than 25,000 mostly women and children linked to IS fighters, the vast majority of them from Syria and Iraq. The State Department called on dozens of countries other than Syria and Iraq to repatriate their citizens from and Roj camps.

“Officials commended Iraq’s efforts to securely detain ISIS fighters” the statement said, adding that they also welcomed Syria’s assumption of responsibility for detention facilities and displacement camps housing IS fighters and their family members.

The SDF, which controls much of the detention facilities in northeast Syria, will merge into the national army as part of a deal reached with the central government last month.

Part of the deal reached last month, government delegations visited over the past days the Qamishli International Airport in the predominantly Kurdish city of Qamishli as well as some oil fields and the headquarters of a national oil company as SDF members withdraw from some of their positions.

Government forces also entered parts of the northeastern city . In the near future, Syria’s central authorities are supposed to take over border crossings with neighboring Iraq and Turkey