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    Syria: What Trump is signaling to Mideast allies and foes about US priorities

    Apr 05, 2018 5 minutes

    Late last year Secretary of Defense James Mattis laid out the details of a plan that would see the United States remaining in Syria well into the future – after the defeat of the Islamic State.

    The US would stick around and shift to a stabilization role to make sure ISIS did not come back, and to keep cards in the diplomatic game (a game that includes adversaries Russia and Iran) to find a political settlement to Syria’s civil war.

    This week President Trump, who earlier had signed off on Secretary Mattis’s plan, sent a different message to his Pentagon chief: Not going to happen quite like that.

    After declaring publicly and on two different occasions – one a campaign-type rally in Ohio last week – that he would be

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