Joint Chiefs Chairman: Fewer Than 1,000 American Troops Will Stay in Syria

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley at a news conference at the Pentagon, the day after it was announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. raid in Syria, on Oct. 28, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Fewer than 1,000 American troops will stay in Syria, as the war-torn Middle East nation is still threatened by a remnant of the ISIS terrorist group, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.

In an ABC interview that aired Sunday on “This Week,” Gen. Milley said U.S. troops will remain in Syria “for a significant amount of time because it’s in our national interest to be there to help out.”