{"id":843,"date":"2025-04-18T21:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:21:35","slug":"us-begins-pulling-hundreds-of-troops-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/us-begins-pulling-hundreds-of-troops-from-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US begins pulling hundreds of troops from Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military is withdrawing hundreds of troops from Syria, a shift the Pentagon is framing as a \u201cconsolidation\u201d that reflects the changing security environment in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecognizing the success the United States has had against ISIS, including its 2019 territorial defeat under President Trump, today the Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of U.S. forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force \u2013 Operation Inherent Resolve to select locations in Syria,\u201d Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Parnell said the drawdown is a \u201cdeliberate and conditions-based process\u201d that will bring the U.S. forces in Syria down to fewer than 1,000 in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dip comes after the U.S. military under the Biden administration announced in December it had raised <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5049478-us-troops-syria-doubled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the number of troops<\/a>\u00a0in Syria from 900 to 2,000 to help with growing threats from ISIS and Iranian-backed militias in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon statement Friday did not say where troops will be pulled from, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/17\/us\/politics\/us-withdrawing-troops-syria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times reported<\/a>\u00a0Thursday that the U.S. military would shutter three of its eight small outposts in northeast Syria, withdrawing some 600 service members. Two senior U.S. officials told the outlet the bases are Mission Support Site Green Village, M.S.S. Euphrates and a third smaller facility.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after President Trump during his first term attempted to withdraw all forces from Syria in 2018 but was met with opposition from Pentagon leaders. Defense officials contended that leaving entirely would abandon the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia that aided the U.S. in defeating ISIS in the country. The split of opinion between Trump and his generals led to the resignation of his first Defense secretary, Jim Mattis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-widget sailthru-signup-display-area sailthru-signup-hill-position-main\">\n\t\t<span class=\"sailthru-signup-widget-close\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-success-message\">\n<div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"thanks\">Thank you for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"watch\">Subscribe to more newsletters <a href=\"http:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/join\/7aa\/signup\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-subscribe-grid-display\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-logo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>The latest in politics and policy.<br \/>\nDirect to your inbox.<br \/>\nSign up for the Defense and National Security newsletter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form_input form-group\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-add-subscriber-errors\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"input-group-btn\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sailthru-signup-display-button\" type=\"submit\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\tif ( window.checkSizeClasses &amp;&amp; window.checkSizeClasses instanceof Function) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twindow.checkSizeClasses();<br \/>\n\t\t\t}<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pulling 600 American forces from Syria would place its ground numbers at the same level as it had been for years after the fall of ISIS in 2019. Washington kept about 900 troops in the country to keep the militant group from resurging, hold Iranian-backed militias at bay and keep Turkey from attacking the Kurdish forces, which Ankara views as associated with terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Pentagon\u2019s assurance that the new force numbers will allow the U.S. to \u201cmaintain pressure on ISIS and respond to any other terrorist threats that arise,\u201d\u00a0the Trump administration\u2019s decision is not without its risks given an uptick in attacks on American bases in the past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ISIS claimed 294 attacks in Syria last year, up from the 121 in 2023, a Defense official told the Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of this year, ISIS has conducted at least 44 attacks in Syria, according to the Middle East Institute in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan by a drone fired by an Iranian-backed group in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The drawdown also comes after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad\u2019s regime in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military is withdrawing hundreds of troops from Syria, a shift the Pentagon is framing as a \u201cconsolidation\u201d that reflects the changing security environment in the country. \u201cRecognizing the success the United States has had against ISIS, including its 2019 territorial defeat under President Trump, today the Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of U.S. forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force \u2013 Operation Inherent Resolve to select&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}