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2019-10-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US forces leave Manbij for foreign parts as Syrian forces move in
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[IsraelTimes] A US official says the approximately 1,000 US troops being withdrawn from northern Syria will reposition in Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Jordan.
The official spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning for a US pullout amid heavy fighting between Ottoman Turkish and Syrian Kurdish forces.
The official says the American troops have pulled out of the Manbij area, where US outposts were set up in 2017. Troops are consolidating their positions to prepare to fly out of the country soon.
The official says US troops based in Iraq could conduct cross-border operations against the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Syria as they did before creating the now-abandoned partnership with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
The White House announced a week ago that US forces in northeast Syria would move aside and clear the way for an expected Ottoman Turkish assault, essentially abandoning the Kurds who fought alongside American forces against Islamic State bully boys.
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