WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Local media reported on Wednesday that the United States was planning to leave the training base near the Iraqi border, and the Russian military would take over it.
"These reports are unfounded," the spokesperson said. "The coalition controlled area within the established deconfliction zone near al-Tanf remains an important area in which coalition special operations forces train and equip, advise, assist, accompany and enable Vetted Syrian Opposition (VSO) groups."
In June, the coalition said it would not leave the al-Tanf garrison until Daesh is defeated.
Earlier in July The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump decided to end the CIA's program to arm and train Syrian opposition fighters.
The US-led coalition has twice struck Syrian-government aligned forces in al-Tanf area, which later became part of the US-Russia agreement on de-confliction zone's creation in southern Syria.
