Pentagon "2,000 U.S. troops in Syria...Twice the level of the past".

The number of U.S. troops in Syria, where the al-Assad regime was ousted by rebels, has more than doubled in the past, the report showed.Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder

said on the 19th local time, "We have announced that there are 900 U.S. troops in Syria, but today we checked and found that 2,000 U.S. troops were deployed to Syria."Asked how long the number of U.S. troops in Syria had risen to 2,000, spokesman
Rider said, "It's right to say it's been at least a few months."

In addition, the existing 900 are key troops that are deployed for a long period of nine to 12 months, but the additional soldiers are deployed alternately for 30 to 90 days.

In addition, they added that their mission is focused on the Islamic extremist terrorist organization, the Islamic State, and the operation to defeat ISIS.