1,000 US troops left in Syria will be moved to Iraq as the Trump administration faces fallout over a possible ISIS resurgence

Associated PressA U.S. soldier, left, sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018.US soldiers in Syria will soon be moved to neighboring Iraq in order to fight a possible Islamic State resurgence, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters on Saturday.Earlier this month, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that the roughly 1,000 remaining US troops would be withdrawn from northeastern Syria. The move has been widely criticized as an abandonment of Kurdish-led forces in the region who have been fighting ISIS alongside the US for years, and has also paved the way for a major Turkish incursion

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