The Trump administration shut down an Israeli lobbying push to avert a withdrawal of US troops from northeast Syria in a bid to dilute Turkey’s growing influence in the country, current and ...

The US military has about 2,000 US troops in Syria across a number of bases, mostly in the northeast. The troops are working with local forces to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in ...

The 2014 onslaught by IS prompted a US-led air campaign in support of local ground forces – Iraqi government units spearheaded by special operations troops, and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

US Military to Slash Troops in Syria to Under 1,000 (Corrects key word used by some media clients to USA-MILITARY/SYRIA from US-MILITARY/SYRIA) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military will ...