(Wall Street Journal) Dion Nissenbaum and Nancy A. Youssef - The Pentagon is preparing to pull all U.S. forces out of Syria by the end of April, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The military plans to pull a significant portion of its forces out by mid-March. The U.S. military has more than 2,000 troops in Syria, where they are helping Kurdish and Arab fighters seize the final patch of Islamic State territory. Defense officials have said equipment has begun moving out of Syria and the additional troops needed to support the withdrawal have arrived. The U.S. has been trying to work out a deal with Turkey on a political plan for northeastern Syria that would avert a fight between Turkish forces and Kurdish forces in Syria that Turkey views as terrorists. But the two sides have made little headway.
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