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Report: ISIS Has Been Rebuilding As U.S. Troops Withdraw From Syria

Wed, 08/07/2019 - 6:26am

Report: ISIS Has Been Rebuilding As U.S. Troops Withdraw From Syria by Meghann Meyers – Military Times

Late in 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he was ready to withdraw troops from Syria after a long and successful campaign taking back territory from ISIS. The move, decried by national security experts as premature, was said to have provoked then-Defense Secretary James Mattis to resign days later, and now, the Defense Department has reported the results.

Since about half of 2,000 special operations and other train-advise-assist forces returned to the U.S. in the spring, ISIS has been staging a comeback, according to an inspector general report from DoD, the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development released Tuesday…

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