byDave DeCamp| December 15, 2025 at 4:11 pm ET |Syria
A US War Department official said on Monday that the Pentagon has no planned “force posture changes” regarding the US military presence in Syria following a deadly attack in the country over the weekend that killed three Americans, including two members of the Iowa National Guard and a civilian interpreter.
“Currently, we have no force posture changes to announce,” a War Department official told Antiwar.com when asked if the Trump administration was planning to withdraw from Syria.
The US withdrew a few hundred soldiers from Syria earlier this year, but the comment signals a full withdrawal isn’t on the table. There are currently around 1,000 US troops in the country , a Pentagon official told The New York Times .
Also on Monday, the US Army identified the two members of the Iowa National Guard who were killed: Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
The attack on Saturday was carried out by a member of the Syrian government’s own security forces, something that’s been confirmed by the Interior Ministry, but President Trump has blamed the incident on ISIS.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Antiwar.com
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