Syria says it has taken control of al-Tanf base vacated by US troops

Syria’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday that Syrian army units had taken control of the al-Tanf military base vacated by US troops, following coordination between Syrian and US authorities.

US forces have withdrawn to Jordan from Syria’s Al-Tanf base, where they had been deployed as part of the international coalition against ISIS, two Syrian military sources told AFP on Wednesday.

During the Syrian civil war and the fight against ISIS, US forces were deployed in the country’s Kurdish-controlled northeast and at Al-Tanf, near the borders with Jordan and Iraq.