White House struggles to defend Trump’s Syria withdrawal plan

The White House on Wednesday struggled both to rationalize and to defend President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that morning that the United States would withdraw its troops from Syria because, as Trump wrote in a tweet, “we have defeated ISIS in Syria.”

By: Christina Wilkie

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A US officer, from the US-led coalition, speaks with a fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Units near northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, known as al-Malikiyah in Arabic, on April 25, 2017.WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday struggled both to rationalize and to defend President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that morning that the United States would withdraw its troops from Syria because, as Trump wrote in a tweet, “we have defeated ISIS in Syria.”

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