US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday night that all of the nearly 1,000 troops the US is pulling out of Syria are to be re-positioned in western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State and to help defend Iraq.. ..…
He assumed control of Islamic State of Iraq, Qaida-linked group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant killed in US air strike Iraq in 2006. ... The IS erupted from the chaos of Syria and Iraq's conflicts did what no Islamic militant group had done before,..…
Though not as vital a country as Iran, Syria is still a strategically important state that shares frontiers with Israel, Iraq and Turkey, among others. . Iran has furthermore been supporting the Houthi Islamic movement in Yemen, who are in opposition to the US-backed Saudi autocracy, in what..…
Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who earlier this week had said the American forces from Syria would remain in Iraq to fight the Islamic State group. ..…
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