The U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) is working on plans to withdraw all U.S. troops stationed in Syria, where the opposition overthrew the dictatorial regime of Bashar Assad in late 2024.
NBC News reported this with reference to two Pentagon officials.
NBC News' interlocutors said that U.S. President Donald Trump and officials close to him have expressed interest in withdrawing the U.S. army contingent from Syria.
According to them, the Pentagon is developing plans for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops within 30, 60 and 90 days.
Journalists contacted the U.S. Department of Defense, but they refused to comment on this information.
It is noted that last Friday, January 31, Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz held a meeting at the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM). The area of responsibility of this command extends to 21 countries, including Syria.
The White House told NBC News that a possible reduction in the U.S. army in Syria was not the topic of the meeting of Waltz at USCENTCOM.
In December 2024, the Pentagon announced that about 2,000 American servicemen are in Syria.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on February 4, during a meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the transitional president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, proposed deploying Turkish troops to the bases in Khmeimim and Tartus, where parts of the army of the aggressor country, russia, are currently located.
Recall that at the end of January, Bloomberg reported, citing sources, that negotiations between moscow and Damascus on maintaining the russian military presence in Syria had allegedly reached a dead end.
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