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Trump Defends Decision to Withdraw US Troops from Syria, Slams Mattis, McGurk

President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, criticizing personnel from his national security team who resigned this week. Trump announced the controversial decision on Wednesday after he declared victory against ISIL terrorists in Syria. Following the announcement, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis offered his resignation ...

December 23, 2018

World

Erdogan Phone Call on Syria Triggered Mattis’s Resignation: Reports

US President Donald Trump took to Twitter earlier this week to announce that Defense Secretary James Mattis would resign on 28 February 2019. Pentagon chief Jim Mattis’s departure from the White House was spurred by a phone conversation between Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which ...

December 22, 2018

World

US Govt Partially Shuts as Congress, Trump Fail to Reach Deal

The US government began a Christmas shutdown early Saturday, after Congress adjourned without passing a federal spending bill or addressing President Donald Trump’s demand for money to build a border wall. Operations for several key agencies ceased at 12:01 am Saturday (5:01 GMT), despite last-ditch talks that continued on Capitol ...

December 22, 2018

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US Army soldiers move down a street as they start a clearing mission in Dora, Iraq, on May 3, 2007, four years before their withdrawal from the country.

Trump Syria Withdrawal Decision Requires Congressional Hearings: Senator Graham

President Donald Trump’s plan to pull all American forces out of Syria needs to be examined by Congress to determine the impact on US national security, Senator Lindsey Graham said on Friday. “It is imperative Congress hold hearings on withdrawal decision in Syria — and potentially Afghanistan — to understand ...

December 21, 2018

World

US Defense Chief Mattis Quits

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday, leading a chorus of protests at home and abroad after President Donald Trump ordered a complete troop pullout from Syria and a significant withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump steadfastly defended his sudden push for retrenchment, vowing that the United States would no longer be ...

December 21, 2018

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Trump Decides ‘Significant’ Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Official

President Donald Trump has decided to pull a significant number of troops from Afghanistan, a US official told AFP on Thursday, with some reports suggesting as many as 50 percent could leave the war-torn country. “If you’re the Taliban, Christmas has come early,” a senior foreign official in the Afghan ...

December 21, 2018

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Mattis Disagrees With Trump on US Withdrawal From Syria: US Senator

US Defense Secretary James Mattis disagrees with President Donald Trump’s decision to immediately withdraw all US military forces from Syria, Senator Lindsey Graham said during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “He [Mattis] thought that the time was not right to leave,” Graham said. “He told me without ...

December 20, 2018

World

US “Can’t Ignore” Hezbollah Threat: Ex-Defense Chief

Leon Panetta, who served as US President Barack Obama’s secretary of defense and director of the CIA, said the US “cannot ignore” developments along Lebanon’s southern border. In an interview with Army Radio on Thursday, he said the US must continue to heed developments there. “When I was defense minister, ...

December 20, 2018

World

US Hits Russian Intelligence, Troll Farm with Fresh Sanctions

The US Treasury hit 15 members of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency with sanctions Wednesday over their alleged roles in interference in the 2016 presidential election and hacking the World Anti-Doping Agency. Also sanctioned were two GRU agents who allegedly took part in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in ...

December 19, 2018

World

Trump Plans Full Withdrawal of US Troops from Syria

The United States will withdraw its troops from Syria, a US official told AFP on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump said America has “defeated ISIL” in the war-ravaged country. “We have defeated ISIL in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” the Republican president tweeted. The ...

December 19, 2018