US military begins large-scale withdrawal from Syria

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The United States began a large-scale drawdown of its military forces from Syria.

Two senior U.S. officials told the New York Times the U.S. military is shutting down three of its eight small operating bases in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast — Mission Support Site Green Village, M.S.S. Euphrates, and a third small facility. Troop levels will be reduced from 2,000 to roughly 1,400.

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