Al-Monitor Security: Is a US withdrawal from Syria premature?
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The Trump administration is weighing plans to drastically reduce the US military’s footprint in Syria, we report this week.
It’s been five years since Syria’s Kurdish-led militia forces defeated the remains of the Islamic State's so-called caliphate with US military backing, and less than five months since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus.
