US weighs plans to slash troop presence in Syria by more than half

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House is weighing plans to withdraw the majority of its troops from Syria over next few months, Al-Monitor has learned. 

Under the Pentagon’s plan — which has not yet received final approval by the White House’s National Security Council — Syria’s Kurdish-led militias would retain control of more than a dozen makeshift prisons holding thousands of Islamic State detainees and their families across the country’s northeast.

Fewer than half of the…