US to reduce troops in Iraq but not Syria, official says
US national security officials say Trump's order to end wars will not halt the Pentagon's counterterror operations abroad.
A White House decision to reduce the US military’s presence in Iraq to some 2,500 troops by mid-January will not affect American-led operations in Syria, a senior defense official said today.
Newly appointed Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller formally announced plans at the Pentagon on Tuesday afternoon to further scale back troop levels in Iraq and to roughly halve the number of US military personnel in Afghanistan.
