The United States has begun withdrawing troops from one of its largest bases in Syria, part of a broader campaign to reduce the US military contingent in the country.
Reuters reported this news, citing its own sources, on Monday, February 23.
The agency's unnamed interlocutors said that US troops had begun to leave the base in Kasraq in northwestern Syria. According to eyewitnesses, dozens of trucks left the base on Monday morning, some of which were carrying armored vehicles.
The US Department of War, the Syrian Ministry of Defense and the Syrian Democratic Forces have neither confirmed nor denied the information that US troops are leaving the base in Kasraq.
The base in Kasraq was the main center of the US-led international coalition during the operation against the Islamic State (ISIS). American troops were deployed here more than a decade ago.
One of the Reuters sources said that the withdrawal of US troops will probably take at least a month. Another source said it would take several weeks. The agency's sources added that it was unclear whether the withdrawal would be temporary or permanent.
Last week, an unnamed senior US official told the agency that a large-scale US military presence is no longer needed in Syria, given the new government's readiness to take primary responsibility for fighting the terrorist threat within its borders.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, at the end of January this year, it became known that the aggressor country russia started withdrawing its troops from the airport in the Syrian city of al-Qamishli, where the russian base had been operating since 2020.
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