US troops are pulling out of Syria. What happens next?

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He blamed Europe for relying on the United States to fight IS and then leaving its captured foreign fighters and their families in limbo. Australia is open to the same charge but was not named. The US Army supervises the removal of military fortifications on the border of Turkey and Syria in August.Barack Obama started airstrikes in Syria in 2014 and sent troops in in 2016. About 2000 US Special Forces troops remain in Syria assisting 60,000 others, mainly Kurds, to defeat IS and prevent its resurgence. The SDF ended up holding about one-third of Syria’s territory in the north and north-east of the country.

The hope of people such as Brett McGurk was that US influence in the region could help broker a peace between the various warring parties. McGurk has written that this would have allowed the return of state services to this part of Syria, kept IS and Iran under control, and placated Turkey by ensuring a more settled border.Why doesn't Syria control its own territory?

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mbachelard Isn't this the same publication that railed against US involvement in Syria in first place. Fast getting the impression that some pundits will rail against the US/Western countries regardless of what they do.

mbachelard What happens next... in Syria... People die. Be it a Turkey incursion, an Assad offensive, a Russian push... then ISIS reappears... and the conflict goes on. Oh yea, and people REMEMBER that America abandoned them, the USA withdrew.

mbachelard Australia will probably volunteer to send our troops over there like a good little puppet.

mbachelard Their allies get slaughter

mbachelard Good summary of the situation. Turkey financed ISIS by allowing oil convoys to freely cross the border. They have significantly slowed the Syrian Government from retaking Idlib by protecting jihadis. This move will be counter-productive by weakening the jihadis biggest threats

mbachelard Turks decimate Kurds...

mbachelard let the waring factions sort it out l guess

mbachelard Peace

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