U.S. planning to pull all troops from Syria, sources say

The U.S. is planning to withdraw about 1,000 remaining troops from Syria over the next two months, U.S. officials told CBS News, ending a roughly decade-long American military presence there as part of the fight against the Islamic State, or ISIS.

Troops departed the al Tanf garrison in southern Syria and the al Shaddadi base in the country’s northeast earlier this year.

The Wall Street Journal was first to report that the remaining U.S. forces are expected to leave.

The U.S. has had a presence in Syria since 2015, supporting an anti-ISIS coalition that included the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The SDF controlled large portions of northeastern Syria for years amid a civil war that challenged Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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