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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/world/middleeast/syria-war.html
U.S. to Send 150 Troops to Patrol Northeastern Syria
(New York Times) Eric Schmitt - The Pentagon is preparing to send 150 troops to northeastern Syria to conduct ground patrols with Turkish forces to help defuse escalating tensions with Turkey over American support for Syrian Kurdish fighters that led the ground war against the Islamic State. The U.S. currently has just under 1,000 troops in Syria, mainly to help stamp out remaining pockets of Islamic State fighters. The Pentagon in recent weeks has set up joint reconnaissance flights and ground patrols with Turkish forces in a narrow buffer zone inside Syria, and destroyed Kurdish fortifications near the border that Turkey considered threatening.