The Pentagon has denied reports that the US plans to leave in Syria thousand of the military

The head of the joint chiefs of staff Committee of the United States General Joseph Dunford has denied messages of mass media about the Pentagon's plans to leave in the Syrian Arab Republic a thousand soldiers.

before the wall Street Journal said citing sources that the US in the Syrian Arab Republic " intend to continue working with Kurdish forces, despite the dangers of Turkey to cross the border and attack the Kurds." According to sources of the newspaper, in connection with such plans about thousands of soldiers of the United States have the opportunity to stay in the Syrian territory.

"A statement that was made today of a major American print publication about the fact that the us military is developing plans to leave nearly 1,000 American soldiers in the Syrian Arab Republic, in fact wrong. No change in plan, announced in February, was not, and we don't stop to run an errand of the President on the withdrawal of American troops in places of permanent deployment ", - reported in circulation Dunford issued the press service of the Pentagon.

The United States and its allies in 2014 carried out an operation against ISIS* in Iraq and Syria, also in the Syrian Arab Republic act without the approval of the authorities of the country. Donald trump by the end of 2018, announced the upcoming withdrawal of troops the United States from Syria. In February, the administration said that it wants to leave about 200 "peacekeepers" in the North-East of Syria and about 200 military Manbig, and bring to Syria a contingent of allies from the EU of up to 1, 5 thousand people.

* Banned in Russia as a terrorist organization



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