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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump says US troops to get out of Syria 'very soon'
2018-03-30
[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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 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 Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...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 Ottoman Turkish state that has killed tens of thousands of people.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Round up all the new Africans, land them there.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-03-30 20:37  

#8  Rumor of 2 coalition troops killed in Syria.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-03-30 11:54  

#7  Trump never gets nothing in return. He's getting something from someone and my guess it's Russian.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2018-03-30 11:11  

#6  Click the above and "expand" the conversation.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-03-30 09:31  

#5  Use goggle translate as needed and expand. The French don't look like a "Done Deal".



Posted by: 3dc   2018-03-30 09:30  

#4  Word is, French troops will fill the void.

Anybody has an Italian general to lead them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-30 08:02  

#3  Invest in French oil and gas companies I guess!
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913   2018-03-30 07:56  

#2  About fucking time. No more blood and treasure fighting on the same side as the Islamist headchoppers.

I look forward to protesting the French military and calling them baby killing warmongers. Oh that's going to be sweet.
Posted by: Lumpy Jones3477   2018-03-30 04:57  

#1  Word is, French troops will fill the void.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-03-30 00:07  

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