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US envoy says Washington will close all but one of its military bases in Syria
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US soldiers step into an armored personnel carrier as they patrol an area in the town of Tal Hamis, southeast of the city of Qameshli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on January 24, 2024. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
ISTANBUL, Turkey — The United States has begun reducing its military presence in Syria with a view to eventually closing all but one of its bases in the country, the US envoy for Syria says in an interview.
“We’ve gone from eight bases to five to three. We’ll eventually go to one,” Tom Barrack says in an interview with Turkey’s NTV.
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