{"id":139021,"date":"2024-12-20T06:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=139021"},"modified":"2024-12-20T06:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:14:44","slug":"more-than-twice-as-many-u-s-troops-are-in-syria-than-previously-disclosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=139021","title":{"rendered":"More Than Twice as Many U.S. Troops Are in Syria Than Previously Disclosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pentagon said on Thursday that 2,000 American troops were in Syria, more than twice the number officials had cited for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Why the Defense Department delayed disclosing the number is unclear. Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters that he became aware of the additional troops on Thursday morning. They are in Syria on a \u201ctemporary\u201d basis, he said, to support what he called the \u201ccore official deployed forces\u201d participating in the Pentagon\u2019s mission to keep Islamic State forces from reconstituting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Ryder said the increase in the number of troops was unrelated to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad to rebel forces in early December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLook, again, learned the number today, provided the number today,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cPart of the explanation is the sensitivity from a diplomatic and operation security standpoint. But again, given the difference in what we\u2019ve been briefing and what the actual number is, just felt that it was important to get you that information.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the Assad government\u2019s collapse, Israel and Turkey have launched military operations in Syria. The United States, for its part, has conducted dozens of strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria to stop the militant group\u2019s fighters from taking advantage of the shifting situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pentagon was asked repeatedly in recent days and weeks how many American troops were in Syria, and maintained that the number was 900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The issue of American boots on the ground in Syria has something of a history. In 2019, President Donald J. Trump ordered all U.S. troops in Syria to return home, in an effort to end the American mission there. Pentagon officials balked, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked Mr. Trump into allowing a limited number of troops to remain to safeguard oil fields, Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re keeping the oil,\u201d the president said at the time. \u201cWe left troops behind, only for the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After that, Pentagon leaders said little about the U.S. presence in Syria, but when asked, replied that 800 American troops were in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More recently, they have put the number at 900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pentagon has said that the troops in Syria are scattered among several bases, including al-Tanf, on the Syria-Iraq border, and in northeast Syria. U.S. and partner forces in a coalition that includes the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces have been working to keep pressure on Islamic State militants and to ensure that fighters who are detained do not end up back on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pentagon says U.S. troops also have provided security for displaced women and children. Many of them are relatives of Islamic State members who died fighting or were detained and who want to be repatriated \u2014 mostly back to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Biden administration and the Iraqi government say people in displacement camps are vulnerable to indoctrination by the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/19\/us\/politics\/us-troops-syria.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon said on Thursday that 2,000 American troops were in Syria, more than twice the number officials had cited for months. 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