The US left in 2019. The vast majority of US Air strikes were against ISIS. The last major US intervention in Syria was to kill the leader of ISIS
I get that people don't like the US. There are plenty of things to criticize
There is a major power rapidly evacuating its troops from Syria as I type this. If you truly are against interventionism, you would know which superpower that is and why they were there
US troops are still in Syria and been there the whole time. There in a few places. One of them is in the north and East working with the Kurdish YPG aka "Syrian Democratic Forces"
"The U.S. military has been conducting operations in Syria since 2014. America’s bases there and in neighboring Iraq ostensibly exist to conduct “counter-ISIS missions,” despite the fact that the Pentagon concluded in 2021 that the Islamic State in Syria “probably lacks the capability to target the U.S. homeland.” https://theintercept.com/2024/12/05/us-military-attacked-syria/
I looked it up and you are right on that point. The US has as many as 900 troops in NE Syria. There was a major withdrawal in 2019 but it was cut short by Congress
The SDF isn't affiliated with al qaeda or isis. The Turkish designated them a terrorist organization because they are allegedly linked to the PKK, Kurdish separatists or freedom fighters or rebels or "terrorists"; whatever floats your boat
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u/chuc16 18d ago
The US left in 2019. The vast majority of US Air strikes were against ISIS. The last major US intervention in Syria was to kill the leader of ISIS
I get that people don't like the US. There are plenty of things to criticize
There is a major power rapidly evacuating its troops from Syria as I type this. If you truly are against interventionism, you would know which superpower that is and why they were there