Wall Street Journal : US to withdraw its troops from Syria by the end of April

The United States military is preparing to pull all American forces out of Syria by the end of April, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

The military plans to pull a significant portion of its 2,000 troops out by mid-March, with a full withdrawal coming by the end of April, the newspaper said.

The Pentagon declined to comment on the plans. "We are not discussing the timeline of the US withdrawal from Syria," Navy Commander Sean Robertson told the paper.

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump said he believes that by next week he will be able to declare the defeat of the "physical caliphate" of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).