The U.S. maintains nearly 2,000 troops in Syria after announcing it would start withdrawing from Syria in mid-March and leave a few hundred.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media.

In statements Dec. 19 and 20 last year, U.S. President Donald Trump declared victory over the Daesh terror group, saying its defeat was the sole reason for America’s presence in the country under his administration.

Trump signaled a “slow and highly coordinated pullout” of U.S. troops from Syria following the suggestions of the American national security bureaucracy.

While avoiding a timetable or date when it would be done, the head of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Joseph Votel said Feb. 11 that a pullout would likely begin within weeks, signaling the first steps of the process to be taken in mid-March.

On Feb. 22, Pentagon spokesman Sean Robertson said: "U.S. forces numbering a couple hundred will remain in northeast Syria as part of a multinational force."

"The U.S. will maintain a presence at the al-Tanf garrison in southern Syria," said Robertson.

On Sunday, the U.S.'s top general denied a report suggesting military plans to keep roughly half of its 2,000 troops stationed in Syria following a withdrawal Trump described in December as immediate and complete.

Dunford insisted there has been no change to the planned 400 troops the White House announced last month.

The White House announced in February the administration is planning to keep 200 American troops in northeastern Syria as part of an international peacekeeping force, in addition to 200 troops that were supposed to be used to secure a garrison at a strategic Syrian border town.

However, according to local sources in Syria, although the date for pullout set by Votel expired, the U.S. did not begin to reduce its military power in Syria.

On the contrary, 300 trucks were sent to the regions occupied by YPG/PKK terrorists in Syria from the Iraqi side at the beginning of and the end of February.

On Feb 4, the U.S. delivered nearly 150 truckloads of armored vehicles and equipment to the depot belonging to YPG/PKK terrorists in Harab Isk and Sarrin villages.