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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5064661" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/26/will-us-leave-syria[/URL]&quot;Speculation has been rife American forces would withdrawal from Syria after the Afghanistan pullout in an effort to end ‘forever wars’Officially, the US has 900 troops in the country’s northeast, whose mandate is to help Washington’s local counterterrorism partner, the Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ensure the <a href="https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/lasting-defeat-campaign-destroy-isis" target="_blank">enduring defeat</a> of the armed group, ISIL (ISIS).&quot;[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/exclusive-inside-secret-world-us-commandos-africa[/URL]&quot;United States Special Operations forces (SOF) — including Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets and Marine Corps Raiders — are the US military’s most highly trained soldiers, specialising in counterterrorism, counter-insurgency, and “direct action” combat raids, among other missions. Their operations are shrouded in secrecy.Although US commandos operate on the African continent with the agreement of host governments, ordinary Africans are rarely told about the full extent of US activities — nor offered a say in how and why Americans operate in their countries. Even basic information, like the sweep and scope of deployments by elite US troops and clandestine combat by American commandos on the continent, is mostly unreported across Africa.&quot;&quot;In 2019, US Special Operations forces were deployed in 22 African countries: Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Côte D’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania and Tunisia.&quot;[ATTACH=full]359292[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5064661, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/26/will-us-leave-syria[/URL] "Speculation has been rife American forces would withdrawal from Syria after the Afghanistan pullout in an effort to end ‘forever wars’ Officially, the US has 900 troops in the country’s northeast, whose mandate is to help Washington’s local counterterrorism partner, the Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ensure the [URL='https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/lasting-defeat-campaign-destroy-isis']enduring defeat[/URL] of the armed group, ISIL (ISIS)." [URL unfurl="true"]https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/exclusive-inside-secret-world-us-commandos-africa[/URL] "United States Special Operations forces (SOF) — including Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets and Marine Corps Raiders — are the US military’s most highly trained soldiers, specialising in counterterrorism, counter-insurgency, and “direct action” combat raids, among other missions. Their operations are shrouded in secrecy. Although US commandos operate on the African continent with the agreement of host governments, ordinary Africans are rarely told about the full extent of US activities — nor offered a say in how and why Americans operate in their countries. Even basic information, like the sweep and scope of deployments by elite US troops and clandestine combat by American commandos on the continent, is mostly unreported across Africa." "In 2019, US Special Operations forces were deployed in 22 African countries: Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Côte D’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania and Tunisia." [ATTACH type="full" alt="7.png"]359292[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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