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Source: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2025-06-04/syria-force-reduction-18006732.html?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru

U.S. Troop Presence in Syria to Be Reduced

(Stars and Stripes) Lara Korte - The number of U.S. bases in Syria will be pared from eight to one, American ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said on June 2 in an interview with a Turkish TV station. Since ISIS' territorial defeat in 2019, the U.S. has maintained several hundred troops in northeastern Syria to train and assist Kurdish partners in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as well as a small contingent near the southern border with Jordan and Iraq. Following an agreement the SDF made in March to merge forces with the interim government in Damascus, the Pentagon said it will reduce the American troop level in the country from 2,000 to less than 1,000 in the coming months.

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