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Trump says US troops to get out of Syria 'very soon'
[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has declared that the United States will withdraw from war-torn Syria "very soon", without offering any other details. "We will be coming out of Syria very soon. Let the other people take care of it now," Trump said on Thursday in a televised rally in the state of Ohio. Trump complained that the US spends trillions of dollars in the Middle East, but get "nothing" in return. He did not say whether the withdrawal also includes the US halting its air operation against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) fighters, who remain in Syria. He told the Ohio workers that the American troops have "knocked the hell out of ISIS". "We're going to have 100 percent of the caliphate, as they call it. Sometimes referred to as land. We're taking it all back quickly." US troops in Syria are mostly stationed in the northern part of the country, and are embedded with the Kurdish YPG, its main ally in fighting ISIS. Last week, the US State Department denied reports that it reached a deal with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on the presence of American troops in the Kurdish city of Manbij. Turkey, which recently launched a military operation inside Syria, considers the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria and its armed-wing YPG to be "terrorist groups" with ties to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK has waged a decades-long armed fight against the Posted by: Fred 2018-03-30 |
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