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JERUSALEM | Israeli leader: Trump withdrawal from Syria won't affect us

JERUSALEM | Israeli leader: Trump withdrawal from Syria won’t affect us

JERUSALEM  — Israel’s leader says the American decision to withdraw its forces from Syria will not affect Israeli policy.

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will “continue to act against Iran’s attempts to entrench itself militarily in Syria, and to the extent necessary, we will even expand our actions there.”

Israel, like others, was caught off-guard by President Donald Trump’s abrupt move to…

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WASHINGTON | Trump pulling all US troops from Syria, declaring IS defeat

WASHINGTON | Trump pulling all US troops from Syria, declaring IS defeat

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, officials announced Wednesday as the president suddenly declared victory over the Islamic State, contradicting his own experts’ assessments and sparking surprise and outrage from his party’s lawmakers who called his action rash and dangerous.

The U.S. began airstrikes in Syria in 2014, and ground troops moved in…

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WASHINGTON  | US to withdraw all American troops in Syria, official says

WASHINGTON  | US to withdraw all American troops in Syria, official says

WASHINGTON  — The Trump administration will soon withdraw all of the approximately 2,000 American troops from Syria, a U.S. official said Wednesday as President Donald Trump declared victory in the mission to defeat Islamic State militants there.

Planning for the pullout has begun and troops will begin leaving as soon as possible, said the official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss…

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