Syria, Counterterrorism, Middle East
December 18, 2025
After strike on American troops, what’s next for the U.S. in Syria?
“If we didn’t have troops in Syria, there wouldn’t be any U.S. targets,” says Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities think tank.
Another possibility is drone strikes on “some targets somewhere out in the desert that are maybe loosely connected” to the attacker, Dr. Kelanic says. “They’ll call that retaliation and move on.”
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