Let's start with the good news.

The U.S. has decided to withdraw nearly 1,000 U.S. citizen contractors from Afghanistan amid the growing novel coronavirus threat in a country ill-equipped to cope with the pandemic, according to a top Pentagon official.

Unlike when Trump wanted to pull out of Syria, the media isn't screaming against Trump intention of leaving Afghanistan. Even military vets support withdrawal by 73%.

The results are an increase from identical questions in last year’s poll by Concerned Veterans for America, which has close ties to the conservative Koch network and the Trump administration. For much of the last year, the group has been leading public efforts to convince lawmakers and the White House to severely curtail overseas military operations.

Once again, where is the antiwar left?
Speaking of Syria, we aren't wanted there.

Villagers in the Al-Qamishli countryside of Al-Hasakah forced a U.S. military convoy to turnaround on Wednesday after it tried to access a roadway that goes through their villages.

Following the incident at Rahayah Al-Souda, the U.S. military tried to enter the nearby village of Farfrah, where they were once again confronted by the residents of the village.
...The U.S military convoy was once again forced to turn around and head towards the town of Tal Hamis.

A correspondent for Sputnik Arabic said that this confrontation is the third of its kind in the past ten days, as the residents of the aforementioned villages intercepted the American convoy before.

It couldn't be more clear. We should leave Syria. Yet these are the headlines.

Just how many troops are in Syria is anyone's guess, but groups are attempting to change that.

The Trump administration is being challenged to reveal how many troops the US has in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria – and to explain why it stopped publishing those figures more than two years ago.

The Just Security website and the Project on Government Oversight have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (Foia) for the number of military and civilian defence personnel assigned to the three countries since December 2017, when public records were stopped. They also requested “underlying documents that explain why the [defence department] withheld the numbers”.

“The United States Government and all its institutions represent and are accountable to the American people,” the former defence secretary Chuck Hagel wrote in support of the requests. “The public and those who serve and defend this country and their families are entitled to know where we are sending our service men and women, why, and the numbers. That’s democracy. The Government works for the people.”

Finally, I must end this on a down note.

In the first four months of this year, U.S. Africa Command has conducted more airstrikes in Somalia than it did during all of Barack Obama’s eight years in office.
Since the beginning of the year, AFRICOM has announced 39 airstrikes in Somalia. The command announced a total of 36 such attacks from 2009 to 2017, under Obama, peaking in 2016 with 19 declared airstrikes. Last year, under President Donald Trump, the U.S. conducted 63 air attacks in Somalia, the most ever in a single year.
The spike in U.S. airstrikes comes as the number of Covid-19 cases in Somalia is similarly rising. On April 8, there were 21 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Somalia. As of Wednesday, there were 286. Most of those infected have no history of travel abroad, indicating local transmission of the disease and worrying prospects for the future — especially among the many internally displaced persons, or IDPs, who have lost their homes to the ongoing conflict between al-Shabab and the Federal Government of Somalia, which is backed by the United States.