by Dave DeCamp
Israeli media reported that US officials informed Israel of the plan
President Trump is planning to withdraw thousands of US troops from Syria, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Israeli broadcaster Kan.
The Kan report said that “senior White House officials conveyed a message to their Israeli counterparts indicating that President Trump intends to pull thousands of US troops from Syria.”
The report added that a US troop withdrawal from Syria would “raise significant concerns in Tel Aviv.”
Before Trump was inaugurated, the Pentagon under the Biden administration admitted that it had been lying about the number of troops it had in Syria. For years, the Pentagon said there were 900 US troops occupying eastern Syria, but it revealed in December that 2,000 troops are stationed there.