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These are some of the American troops who've been ordered to leave Syria
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They're driving through the mostly Kurdish city of Qamishli and headed to Iraq
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It's vegetables that are bouncing off the armor and sticking to the windows
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The US troop pullout is controversial many in the Kurdish north feel betrayed
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American soldiers were essentially protecting them from attacks by Turkish forces
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But president Trump has long pushed for an American pullout
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forever
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It's sand and it's death
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Elsewhere in Syria. The withdrawal is less eventful
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military convoys joined routine traffic on the highway
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But it's not just the exit that draws attention
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It's what the Americans leave behind
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Like this outpost near the city of men bish filmed by a Russian journalist
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Here's what it looked like when US troops were stationed in the area
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Now they're gone and Russian media has arrived
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Literally opening the gates
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Russia is trying to fill the void left by the US and Syria
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moving its forces into Kurdish areas to broaden influence across the country in
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Social media posts Russian reporters make a special point to highlight the signs of a hasty American withdrawal
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Discarded footballs and empty sleeping quarters
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At another base it's a Harry Potter book and hand drawn signs supporting the troops
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but at the Lafarge cement factory a former base the u.s. Disposes of what it left behind a
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Defense official announces that American planes bombed US munitions stored there to prevent anyone else from using them
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How quickly do Russian troops move in
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Here our US and Russian troops at the same strategic location. Just two days apart
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And it's not just Russians moving in alone. Syrian army soldier scales a hill that's close by and
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Waves the flag of President Bashar al Assad's government which originally lost this territory to armed rebels seven years ago
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small groups of American troops will remain elsewhere in Syria on different missions
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But for now the u.s. Role in working with and defending kurds in the north has come to an abrupt end
