The Pentagon admits to increasing the military presence in Syria before the fall of Assad
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Pentagon had stationed around 900 troops in Syria for years, and American officials always repeated this figure even after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government on December 8, but now it is clear that this country In the months leading to the fall of Assad, he had deployed about 2,000 troops in Syria!
However, Ryder claimed at the Pentagon press conference that they just found out that the number was higher!
He claimed: Given the discrepancy between what we were being told and the actual figure, I felt it was important to update you on this information. Diplomatic and operational sensitivities were the reason for the delay in this notification.
According to him, reinforcements were present in Syria for at least a few months on a rotating basis and it has been this way for some time, and it has nothing to do with recent developments, and its timing is purely coincidental.
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