US to Withdraw 600 Troops From Syria, Leaving Fewer Than 1,000 to Help Counter IS Militants WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work ...

The U.S. military will bring the number of troops inside Syria to under 1,000 in the coming months in a “consolidation” effort, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on April 18.

Washington also deployed thousands of American personnel to advise and assist local forces, with US troops in some cases directly fighting the jihadists. After years of bloody warfare, Iraq's ...

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 ...