US President Donald Trump said Washington won’t demand that Syrian president Bashar Assad leave power to end the six-year war in the country. In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Trump said it ‘was not possible’ for peace with Assad still in power. “Are we insisting on it? No. But ...
MAX FISHER President Trump, inspired by TV images of faraway suffering to launch missile strikes against Syria, may be about to discover a lesson that has confounded presidents for 25 years: American power can only do so much. That truth is also embedded in another set of disturbing images ...