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U.S. forces are with­draw­ing from a key base in north­east­ern Syr­ia, of­fi­cials said Mon­day, in what ap­pears to be part of a larg­er draw­down of U.S. forces in Syr­ia.

Iraqi and Syr­i­an se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials said that the U.S. mil­i­tary had be­gun mov­ing its forces and equip­ment from the Qas­rak base in Syr­ia to Iraq’s se­mi-au­tonomous Kur­dish re­gion.

As­so­ci­at­ed Press jour­nal­ists in the city of Qamish­li in north­east Syr­ia saw a con­voy of dozens of trucks car­ry­ing mil­i­tary ve­hi­cles and equip­ment Mon­day, with mil­i­tary he­li­copters cir­cling over­head, mov­ing to­ward the Iraqi bor­der.