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US to Withdraw 1,000 Remaining Troops From Syria Amid Turkeys Incursion: Defense Secretary

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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed the withdrawal of 1,000 troops from northern Syria on Sunday, saying officials want “to conduct it … as safely and quickly as possible.”

“We want to make sure we dont leave equipment behind. So Im not prepared to put a timeline on it, but … thats our general game plan,” Esper told CBS News.

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The move comes about a week after President Donald Trump announced the repositioning of several-dozen American soldiers embedded with Kurdish forces in northern Syria.

When pressed further, he said that it became clear that Turkey was fully ready to commit an incursion into northern Syria.

“This should not be a surprise,” Esper explained. “If you go back in time to when we first began this relationship … with the Syrian Kurds at that time in 2014 the Turks were protesting at that moment.”

Smoke billows from the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain on October 12, 2019, as Turkey and its allies continued their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria. (NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Elaborating further, Esper said Turkey has more than 15,000 troops in the area, noting that the United States had only about 50 soldiers there.

“And so we find ourselves, we have American forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies, and its a very untenable situation,” Esper said. “So I spoke with the president last night, after discussions with the rest of the national security team, and he directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern Syria.”

“In the last 24 hours, we learned that [the Turks] likely intend to extend their attack further south than originally planned, and to the west,” Esper said. “We also have learned in the last 24 hours that the … [Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces] are looking to cut a deal, if you will, with the Syrians and the Russians to counterattack against the Turks in the north.”

Smoke billows from a fire inside Syria during bombardment by Turkish forces, on Oct. 9, 2019.(Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)

As a result, it would be irresponsible to keep American soldiers in that position, Esper said, adding that Ankara went ahead with this incursion despiteRead More – Source

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