US to establish two military bases in Kurdish-held areas of Syria

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States plans to relocate its troops in Syria to two new military bases, one near Turkey-held areas and another on the Syria-Iraq border and maintain at least 400 soldiers in Kurdish-held areas, an official from the northeast Syria (Rojava) administration in Washington DC said on Monday.

Bassam Ishaq, a US-based member of the Syrian Democratic Council’s Presidential Council, told Rudaw’s Nalin Hassan that the US is carrying out a “relocation of positions,” opening a new base “in northern Syria near the Tishreen Dam,” with another to be established “near the Syrian-Iraqi border in the southeast, close to Deir ez-Zor.”

The SDC is the political wing of the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).