Washington, April 18, 2025 (AFP) - US to withdraw some 1,000 troops from Syria

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The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said on Friday. Washington has had troops in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, which rose out of the chaos of the country's civil war to seize swaths of territory there and in neighboring Iraq over a decade ago. The brutal jihadists have since suffered major d......

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