National Security

U.S. Officials Try to Slow Trump’s ‘Everybody Out’ of Syria Order

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Confusion is the only constant for the future course of the U.S. war after the president took the world by surprise by suggesting an imminent withdrawal.

Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman 

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