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U.S. missions against IS in Northern Syria resumed
Why is it in news?
- U.S. troops have resumed large-scale counterterrorism missions against the Islamic State group in northern Syria, nearly two months after President Donald Trump’s abrupt order to withdraw U.S. troops
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- S. soldiers and Syrian Kurdish fighters unite: U.S. soldiers and hundreds of Syrian Kurdish fighters reunited to conduct what the Pentagon said was a large-scale mission to kill and capture Islamic State fighters in Deir el-Zour province, about 193 km south of the Turkish border.
- Other reinforcements: Separately, several hundred other troops, some with armoured Bradley Fighting Vehicles, arrived from Iraq and Kuwait under a subsequent order from Mr. Trump to protect Syria’s eastern oil fields from the Islamic State, as well as from the Syrian government and its Russian partners
Source
The Hindu