US already has 2,000 troops in Syria, Pentagon set to reveal
The Pentagon had previously acknowledged the presence of 500 US troops in the country: ABC News/ The Pentagon is likely to announce in the coming days that there are about 2,000 U troops in Syria, two US officials said on Friday, as the military acknowledges that an accounting system for troops has under-reported the size of forces on the ground. The US military had earlier publicly said it had around 500 troops in Syria, mostly supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces group of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting Islamic State in the north of ...
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