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US completes withdrawal from key base in Syria as part of a larger drawdown
U.S. Central Command said the pullout followed a deal with Damascus and the SDF, as Syria takes control of all major former American bases.
- On Thursday, the last remaining United States troops departed Qasrak air base in Hasakah, Syria, ending a 10-year military presence aimed at combating the Islamic State group.
- This departure follows a January deal between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces, under which the Syrian government agreed to absorb Kurdish fighters into national structures.
- Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stated the transfer occurred in full coordination with Washington, reflecting constructive relations since President Ahmed al-Sharaa met President Donald Trump in November.
- US troops and equipment routed overland through Jordan rather than Iraq to avoid potential attacks by Iranian-backed armed groups. Central Command called the exit a "deliberate and conditions-based transition."
- Damascus now controls northeast border areas and border crossings previously outside government authority, consolidating state control across the region after years of Kurdish-led autonomy.
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The last convoy of the U.S. military from Syria, almost casually noted by the world public, rolled on Thursday. After more than a decade of fighting, hundreds of thousands of deaths and economic ruin, a bloody proxy war ends. The new regime can now play its geopolitical role. Let's not fool ourselves: the years-long fairy tale of the Pentagon that the U.S. troops are mainly in Syria to fight the IS was exactly that – a fairy tale.
The United States evacuated its last military base in Syria on Thursday, formally ending the deployment of American forces in the country after more than a decade, where they were supposed to provide military support to mainly Kurdish militias fighting terrorists from the so-called Islamic State (IS).
The US is currently active with a gigantic military power in the Middle East – the GIs are now withdrawing from Syria. Donald Trump had already announced this step in his first term.
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