Trump still committed to Syria troop withdrawal, despite mixed signals
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump’s already confusing policies toward Syria have become even more difficult to parse, both in Washington and in the region convulsed by nearly nine years of civil war, after a flurry of contradictory statements over the last 72 hours.
On Sunday, Trump met with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a vocal critic of the president’s plan to pull troops out of Syria. After the meeting, Graham said he “felt a lot better” about the situation, describing the withdrawal plan as being “in a pause situation.”
Graham later outlined three conditions he said Trump had set down for a full withdrawal: permanent destruction of the Islamic State militants; protection for Syria’s Kurds, whose militias have been
