Army General Mark Milley visits a base in the north-east to assess US anti-ISIS efforts. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NORTH-EAST SYRIA - The nearly eight-year-old US deployment to Syria to combat Islamic State is still worth the risk, the top US military officer said on Saturday, after an unannounced visit to a base to meet US troops in the country’s north-east.
While Islamic State in Iraq and Syria - or ISIS - is a shadow of the group that ruled over a third of Syria and Iraq in a Caliphate declared in 2014, hundreds of fighters are still camped in desolate areas where neither the US-led coalition nor the Syrian army, with support from Russia and Iranian-backed militias, exert full control.
Last month, the US military shot down an Iranian-made drone in Syria that was attempting to conduct reconnaissance on a patrol base in northeastern Syria.
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