New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The United States is planning to withdraw all its remaining troops from Syria, ending the American military's decade-long presence in the Arab nation. According to CBS News, there are around 1,000 US troops in Syria, who will be withdrawn over the next two months.

The US, under the then-president Barack Obama, had deployed ground troops in Syria, in 2015 where they partnered with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the country's northeast to fight against the Islamic State (IS).

During the height of the fight against IS in 2017, the U.S. had roughly 2,000 to 2,500 ground troops deployed in Syria.

The SDF controlled large portions of northeastern Syria for years amid the Syrian civil war.

IS was largely de...