To withdraw some 1,000 soldiers from Syria

The Pentagon said on Friday that the United States would reduce the number of soldiers deployed in Syria in Syria to reduce about 1,000.

Washington has placed soldiers in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, who came out of the chaos of the country’s civil war and to seize the swaths of the region in the neighboring Iraq a decade ago.

Cruel Jihadis have suffered a big defeat in both countries since then, but it is still a threat.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement, “Today the Defense Secretary directed the consolidation of American forces in Syria … To select places,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement where this place will be there.

He said, “This intentional and conditions-based process will bring the US footprint in Syria to the US forces less than 1,000,” he said.

Parnell said, “As this consolidation … US Central Command will be ready to continue attacks against the remains of (IS) in Syria.”

President Donald Trump has long been suspicious of Washington’s presence in Syria, ordering the return of soldiers during his first term, but eventually abandoning American forces in the country.

As the Islamic-led rebels carried forward with an electric aggressive last December that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was eventually overthrown, Trump said that Washington should “not join it!”

“Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, and the United States should have nothing to do with it. It’s not our fight,” Trump, then the President-election wrote on its true social stage.

– Against the years of war –

The 2014 attack inspired an American-led air-led air campaign in support of local ground-borne Democratic Forces (SDF) and Iraqi government units.

Washington also deployed thousands of American personnel to advise and assist local forces, in some cases fighting jihadis directly with American soldiers.

After years of the bloody war, the Prime Minister of Iraq announced the final win in December 2017, while the SDF announced the defeat of the group’s “Khalifa” in March 2019 after seizing its last stronghold in Syria.

But Jihadis still have some fighters in rural areas of both countries, and American forces have long carried out periodic attacks and raids to help prevent the resurrection of the group.

Washington took military action against IS in Syria in view of Assad’s uprooting, although it has recently focused its attention to target Yemen’s Huthi rebels, attacking international shipping since the end of 2023.

The US forces in Iraq and Syria were repeatedly targeted by pro-Iran terrorists following the outbreak of the Gaza War in October 2023, but responded with heavy strikes on the goals associated with Tehran, and the attacks came to an end.

Washington said for years that there were some 900 military personnel in Syria as part of international efforts against IS, but Pentagon announced in December 2024 that the number of US troops in the country had doubled by about 2,000 a year.

While the United States is reducing its forces in Syria, Iraq has also eliminated the appearance of the US -led coalition, where Washington has said that it has some 2,500 soldiers.

The United States and Iraq have announced that the alliance will end its decade long military mission in the federal Iraq by the end of 2025, and in the autonomous Kurdistan region by September 2026.

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