Washington has significantly reduced its troop presence in Syria, its special envoy to the country Thomas Barrack has said, amid warming ties with Damascus after a rebel uprising toppled former ...

The United States will scale down its military presence in Syria to one base from eight and U.S. policies will shift in the ...

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In April, two senior U.S. officials told the New York Times the military would be shutting down three of its eight small operating bases in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast, with troop ...

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), said on Sunday that he thinks U.S.

After decades of using proxies to attack U.S. troops, experts say Iran's network has been degraded, but small groups still ...

Beyond Syria, the US has approximately 2,500 troops in Iraq, 3,500 in Jordan, and nearly 2,000 in Turkey. In a deal between Baghdad and the Biden administration, ...

The US military has about 2,000 US troops in Syria, mostly in the northeast. They are working with local forces to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swathes of ...

The number of US troops in Syria has always been an issue of discussion in Washington. There were thought to be several hundred for years, but the real number is believed to be about 2,000.

The US troop presence in Syria was designed to maintain dominance over the fossil fuel fields, primarily to prevent them from falling into the hands of ISIS or the Assad regime.

A Syrian Free Army vehicle idles beside a U.S. Army vehicle near al-Tanf Garrison, Syria, on May 6, 2023. The number of U.S. bases in Syria will eventually drop from eight to one, Tom Barrack, the ...