President Donald Trump is ordering the remaining US forces out of northern Syria, a development that has paralyzed the fight against ISIS and ceded US and Kurdish battlefield gains to Moscow and Damascus.
"We have American forces likely caught between two opposing, advancing armies and it's a very untenable situation. I spoke with the President last night, after discussions with the rest of the national security team, and he directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern Syria," Esper said on CBS'"Face the Nation.""Which is where most of our forces are."Trump and Mnuchin ramp up threats of sanctioning Turkey.
While the majority of the 1,000 US troops in Syria are in the northern part of the country, the US military also maintains a small presence in southern Syria at a base in At Tanf where the US trains local anti-ISIS fighters that are not affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces.A US official familiar with the situation on the ground said earlier Sunday that US forces in Syria are preparing to withdraw from the country.
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