The United States began withdrawing its troops from Syria

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told DW

Wednesday, December 19, "that we have begun to return US soldiers, "said Sanders in a statement.

Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that his mission in Syria was over.

"We defeated the identity card in Syria, for me it was the only reason for being there, presidential," said the president of the United States. United.

In turn, British Defense Secretary Tobias Allwood expressed a "strong" disagreement with Trump's position.

"The identity card has been transformed into other forms of extremism and the threat is still very real," the minister wrote on his Twitter page

. About two thousand American soldiers live in Syria.