They were pulled from northern Syria and redeployed to Iraq. There were other troops that weren't along the northern border that never left Syria. We abandoned just the northern border so Turkish forces could do as they please without pushback.
I thought I had read we went back into northern Syria more recently but I'm not finding any sources for that so I might've been mistaken on that part. But the real point is that if you're cheering it on cause you want less US involvement in the region you're also mistaken. We're no less involved overall and the troops (which were relatively few - maybe 1000 or so) are still deployed in the region just not in the same place they were before.
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