The “American Defense” announces its intention to withdraw a thousand soldiers from Syria

The US Department of Defense has announced that it will reduce the number of American soldiers deployed in Syria, from about two thousand soldiers to less than a thousand in the coming months.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Bernil said in a statement that the Minister of Defense gave directions to integrate American forces in Syria by choosing specific sites, without specifying the sites in which this will take place.

American soldiers in Syria

He added that “this studied and desperate operation would reduce many American forces in Syria to less than a thousand American soldiers in the coming months.”

The US Defense Secretary, Beit Higseth, announced that the Pentagon would reduce his “unnecessary” spending by $ 5.1 billion, and the reduction of grants to two prominent American universities.

American military spending

“In the meantime, we will sign a memorandum to order the end of contracts with the Ministry of Defense with a value of $ 5.1 billion,” Higseth said in a video clip posted on the X platform.
This announcement falls within a huge federal program to reduce the budget that Illon Musk pledged, with the approval of President Donald Trump, as part of his mandate to manage government competence.