WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that US troops withdrawing from Syria would remain in the region to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State group.
“United States troops coming out of Syria will now redeploy and remain in the region to monitor the situation and prevent a repeat of 2014, when the neglected threat of ISIS raged across Syria and Iraq,” Trump said in a statement, using an acronym for the jihadist group.
Trump has given orders to pull all US troops from northern Syria — about 1,000 soldiers — as Turkey presses a deadly assault against Kurdish forces there.
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