Syria Demands an End to America’s Last ‘Forever War’ – By Tom O’Connor (Newsweek) / Apr 4 2023
Syrian officials are calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to withdraw U.S. troops from their last active warzone posting in the Middle East, amid a recent escalation in violence and new diplomatic initiatives that appear to signal a shift in the geopolitical order of the region.
The presence of an estimated 900 U.S. troops tasked with supporting the local Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has always been rejected by the central government in Damascus, led by President Bashar al-Assad. Before the Pentagon sided with the SDF, the U.S. supported rebels who were fighting to overthrow the Syrian leader whom Washington has accused of widespread human rights violations.
And while the Syrian government has waged its own anti-ISIS campaign backed by Iran and Russia, the uninvited role of U.S. soldiers and those of other coalition members are seen by Assad and his administration as part of a wider array of abuses committed by Washington throughout the nation’s 12-year civil war.
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