The U.S. military has about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria across a number of bases, mostly in the northeast. The troops are working with local forces to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria but was later pushed back.

The United States began a large-scale drawdown of its military forces from Syria. Two senior U.S. officials told the New York Times the U.S. military is shutting down three of its eight small operating bases in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast — Mission Support Site Green Village,

The departure would return force levels to where they had been for years, after the U.S. and its allies waged a multiyear campaign to defeat ISIS.