FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper talks to the media prior to NATO defense ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 24, 2019. Virginia Mayo/Pool via REUTERS
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington (Reuters) - The U.S. military pullback from the Kobani area in northeastern Syria near Turkey's border should take "another week or so" to complete, Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday, as the U.S. military repositions and reduces its forces in Syria.
Esper said that once the partial U.S. withdrawal was finished, the U.S. military would still have roughly around 600 troops in Syria, down from about 1,000 before Trump's withdrawal order last month. Esper said the United States was still supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which Turkey views as a terrorist group.
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