October 25 2019
The White House is mulling a plan to keep about 500 U.S. troops in northeastern Syria, including tanks, reports Newsweek.
Military officials presented President Trump with multiple options that would keep some U.S. troops in Syria, sources told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
The proposal calls for deploying half of an armored battalion, including as many as 30 M1 Abrams tanks, to eastern Syria to help secure oil fields. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) would continue to...
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