All US Troops Withdrawing From Syria Are Going to Western Iraq, Says Esper

U.S. soldiers survey the safe zone between Syria and the Turkish border near Tal Abyad, Syria, on a joint patrol with the Tax Abyad Military Council, affiliated with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Sept. 6, 2019. Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo

American forces leaving Syria will be assigned to western Iraq, confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Saturday.

While en route to Afghanistan, Esper told reporters that those troops will carry out operations against the ISIS terrorist group from the neighboring country, but the Pentagon hasn’t yet figured out the logistics.