Bipartisan report urges Trump admin. to halt a planned troop drawdown from Syria and to step up diplomatic efforts to counter Iran's influence and stave off an ISIS resurgence.
"Sharp shifts and reversals in American policy, and the failure of senior U.S. government officials to prioritize the issue with their counterparts, have undermined American credibility and the effectiveness of U.S. policy," the report said.
"It argues that we can't continue to pretend that events in Syria do not affect America's national security interests, and that Syria matters for the United States." The report recommended halting the drawdown of U.S. forces in Syria, restoring U.S. funding for local Kurdish-led forces now governing territory in northeastern Syria, isolating the Assad regime, countering Russian propaganda and placing a higher priority on managing the detention of thousands of captured ISIS fighters and their families held by Kurdish forces.
"What U.S. forces and their partners have gained in Syria should not be discarded with a premature withdrawal," the report said. The group's findings on ISIS echoed the conclusions of a recent Pentagon inspector general's report, which found that the militants were evolving into a lethal insurgency that could take advantage of a U.S. drawdown.
The administration needed to appoint a senior official to address the problem, press European governments to repatriate nationals who fought for ISIS and provide more funding to improve conditions at the camps managed by Syrian Kurdish forces, the report said.
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