US military pulls out of Syria's Al-Tanf garrison in major shift

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "If they can be allowed to embed themselves in that country with long-range systems, they would be able to open a third front on Israel next to Lebanon and Gaza," Jeffrey said. Pentagon officials regularly coordinated with Israel's top brass as Israeli fighter pilots used the US-controlled airspace over Al-Tanf to launch strikes in Syria on Iranian weapons shipments and the Assad regime's air defenses.
47% : Yet the Pentagon opted to keep Al-Tanf, repurposing the base for monitoring the expansion of Iran's military activity in Syria in coordination with Israel and Jordan.
39% : For several years the majority of Rukban's inhabitants had no access to regular electricity, running water or permanent shelters and were forced to rely on intermittent UN food deliveries, which were often delayed or canceled under restrictions imposed by Damascus as the Assad regime sought to coerce them to return home to government-controlled areas.

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