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Why do US troops remain in Syria?

By Daniel DePetris
Published November 21, 2021 11:50am ET
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Why do US troops remain in Syria?
A U.S. soldier sits in an armored vehicle on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. President Donald Trump expects to decide "very quickly" whether to remove U.S. troops from war-torn Syria, saying their primary mission was to defeat the Islamic State group and "we've almost completed that task." | (Hussein Malla/AP)

Why on Earth are U.S. troops in Syria?

What exactly are these men and women in uniform being tasked to do? When will they finally come home?

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