President Trump is considering whether to keep a few hundred U.S. troops in northeast Syria after the bulk of the American force leaves, a move that would be another twist in years of policy gyrations over the country, U.S. officials said Sunday. A principal mission of the residual force would be to prevent President Bashar al-Assad’s troops or Russian forces from taking control of Syria’s oil fields, which are mainly in Kurdish-held territory in the northeast part of the country. But it would also enable the military to retain...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 21, 2019 03:55 UTC