Pentagon: The US military presence in Syria will not increase amid the change of power

According to RCO News Agency, following the developments in Syria that led to the departure of Bashar al-Assad from power, the spokesperson of the Pentagon 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 Department had previously said that Washington did not foresee the possibility of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government.

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 contact with the leaders of the armed groups that had entered the city. Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that “Bashar Assad” resigned from the presidency and left Syria after negotiating with some participants 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 contact with representatives of the Syrian armed opposition, whose leaders had guaranteed the security of Russian military bases and diplomatic facilities in Syria.

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