Washington has for years mentioned it has some 900 army personnel in Syria as a part of worldwide efforts in opposition to the jihadist group, which seized swathes of territory there and in neighbouring Iraq earlier than being defeated by native forces backed by a US-led air marketing campaign.
However there at the moment are “roughly 2,000 US troops in Syria” and have been for not less than a couple of months, Pentagon spokesman Main Common Pat Ryder advised journalists, saying he had simply acquired the up to date determine.
“The extra numbers … are thought of momentary forces which might be there to help the D-ISIS mission, to help the forces which might be deployed there longer-term,” Ryder mentioned, referring to the mission to defeat Islamic State.
