7, 2018, members of the United States Armed Forces in Syria killed hundreds of Russian citizens who were members of the Russian-backed Wagner Group. (13) On April 12, 2018, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo told the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, In Syria, now, a handful of weeks ago, the Russians met their match. A couple hundred Russians were killed. . (14) On December 19, 2018, President Donald J. Trump ordered the withdrawal of all United States Armed Forces from Syria, a policy that was not implemented, as 900 members of the United States Armed Forces remain in Syria. (15) On February 28, 2019, President Trump declared that 100 percent of the Islamic State caliphate had been defeated, therefore achieving the objective of Operation Inherent Resolve. (16) On October 11, 2019, the Secretary of Defense reported that members of the United States Armed Forces in northern Syria came under artillery fire from Turkish Armed Forces. (17) Former United States Special Presidential Envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition Brett McGurk stated, Turkish forces have fired on a declared United States military outpost in northern Syria. Turkey knows all of our locations down to the precise grid coordinate. . (18) On July 11, 2019, Presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden, Jr., promised to end forever wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East and stated that Staying entrenched in unwinnable conflicts only drains our capacity to lead on other issues that require our attention. (19) On October 6, 2019, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from northern Syria. (20) United States Armed Forces in Syria are regularly attacked by Iranian-backed militias, resulting in casualties. (21) On February 25, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., ordered the United States Armed Forces to carry out airstrikes in eastern Syria against facilities used by Iran-backed militias in response to attacks against United States and allied personnel in Iraq that killed a Filipino contractor and