{"id":4713,"date":"2019-01-28T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2019-01-28T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:52:46","slug":"over-600-us-troops-arrive-in-syria-to-secure-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/28\/over-600-us-troops-arrive-in-syria-to-secure-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"OVER 600 US TROOPS ARRIVE IN SYRIA TO SECURE WITHDRAWAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3258\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-560x293.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-260x136.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA-160x84.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/US-TROOPS-IN-SYRIA.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/americas\/over-600-us-troops-arrive-in-syria-to-secure-withdrawal\/1376837\">AA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Mohamad Misto and Levent Tok<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 additional U.S. troops have arrived in Syria to provide protection to other American forces during their pullout from the war-torn country, according to local sources.<\/p>\n<p>The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the additional troops arrived at U.S. air bases in eastern Syria\u2019s Harab Isk and Sarrin villages, which will be used as main evacuation centers in the event of withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. bases in the towns of Rmeilan and Tal-Baidar in Syria&#8217;s northwestern Al-Hasakah province will be used for airway of heavy weapons, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to comment on the number of troops being sent or their destination, citing security concerns, on Thursday.<br \/>\nLast month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 military troops from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The pullout decision came during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which the two leaders agreed on the need for more effective coordination over the civil war-torn country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: AA By Mohamad Misto and Levent Tok More than 600 additional U.S. troops have arrived in Syria to provide protection to other American forces during their pullout from the war-torn country, according to local sources. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the additional troops arrived at U.S. air bases in eastern&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/28\/over-600-us-troops-arrive-in-syria-to-secure-withdrawal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OVER 600 US TROOPS ARRIVE IN SYRIA TO SECURE WITHDRAWAL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}