Days after US President Donald Trump ordered US troops to withdraw from Syria, French European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau said that Paris would maintain its presence in Syria.
A few days after French President Emmanuel Macron expressed “deep regret” over Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out from Syria, Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu claimed that France would maintain 9 military sites in the country, while the total number of French soldiers deployed in “YPG/PKK-held parts” of Syria east of the Euphrates River amounts to only 200 troops.
The deployments reportedly include artillery batteries, technical personnel and special forces units.