US planning to leave 1K troops in Syria: report

Source: The Hill

The U.S. military is making plans to keep almost 1,000 troops in Syria, several months after President Trump said he was removing all U.S. forces from the country.

Citing U.S. officials, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Trump administration plans to continue supporting Kurdish fighters in Syria. The officials added that the plan could keep as many as 1,000 forces across the country, but said the specific number of troops that will remain is still being determined.

Trump has repeatedly claimed since December that ISIS has been fully defeated in the region.
“You kept hearing it was 90 percent, 92 percent, the caliphate in Syria. Now it’s 100 percent, we just took over,” Trump said during remarks to troops last month.

Lawmakers in Congress and U.S. officials, however, have maintained that ISIS hasn't been completely defeated.

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