Peagon: The US military presence in Syria will not increase amid the change of power
Peagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters that the United States does not iend to expand its military presence in Syria, including temporarily amid a power transition in the coury.
According to RCO News Agency, following the developmes in Syria that led to the departure of Bashar al-Assad from power, the spokesperson of the Peagon said in a briefing in response to a question about the status of American forces stationed in Syria: “The status of the force remains stable.”
“As you know, our forces remain at a high level, but there are no changes or changes that the command has made or requested,” he added.
According to Novosti, the US State Departme had previously said that Washington did not foresee the possibility of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s governme.
Syrian armed opposition groups captured Damascus on Sunday. Following that, Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said that he and 18 other ministers decided to stay in the capital. Al-Jalali also said that he was in coact with the leaders of the armed groups that had eered the city. Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that “Bashar Assad” resigned from the presidency and left Syria after negotiating with some participas in the Syrian conflict.
On Sunday, a source in the Kremlin told RIA Novosti that Assad and his family members arrived in Moscow and that Russia had given them asylum on humanitarian grounds. The source also noted that Russian officials were in coact with represeatives of the Syrian armed opposition, whose leaders had guaraeed the security of Russian military bases and diplomatic facilities in Syria.
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