A Syrian television station is reporting that the country is reducing the number of troops on its border with Iraq in response to a deadly U.S. cross-border raid. Syrian and Iraqi officials did not immediately confirm the report.
| Presumably that's to ostentatiously allow as many jihadis as please come tromping into Iraq. |
The private station, Dunia, showed footage Thursday of Syrian troops dismantling positions on the border and leaving the area. The report says the act was a Syrian response to the "American aggression."
| Normally armies don't retreat within their own country if they're not at war... |
On Sunday, the U.S. military launched a deadly raid into Syria. Washington hasn't formally acknowledged the raid. But U.S. officials say the target was a top al-Qaida in Iraq figure who operated a network that smuggled fighters into Iraq. |