- Citing a senior administration official, The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump ordered US military leaders on Tuesday to prepare to withdraw from Syria.
- Trump also said that US troops training local forces in areas liberated from the terrorist group ISIS could stay and that other Arab nations needed to help with reconstruction, according to The Post.
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Trump reportedly just told the US military to prepare to withdraw from Syria
The US has about 2,000 troops in Syria.
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President Donald Trump ordered US military leaders on Tuesday to prepare to withdraw from Syria, The Washington Post reported, citing a senior administration official.
Trump did not set a date for withdrawal but said during a meeting with
told reporters Wednesday that top national-security officials met Tuesday in an "all hands on deck" meeting.
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Trump said Tuesday that he expected to decide "very quickly" whether to remove US troops from war-torn Syria, saying that their primary mission was to defeat ISIS and that "we've almost completed that task."
Trump's comments contrast with the views of his top military advisers, some of whom spoke at a separate event in Washington about the need to stay in Iraq and Syria to defeat the terrorist group that once controlled large swaths of territory in both countries.
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