President Trump is threatening to launch missile strikes against Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad’s government for a suspected April 7 chemical weapons attack on a Damascus suburb. There are currently an estimated 2,000 American troops in Syria, according to the Pentagon. The United States military has had to deconflict airspace with Russian fighter jets in Syria. Months later, British Special Operations forces were pictured at a base near the border intersection of Syria, Jordan and Iraq farther to the south. That spring, American troops and Kurdish and Arab forces pushed toward the city of Manbij.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2018 21:08 UTC