PressTV-‘Israel reassured of US presence in Syria’

The Israeli regime has been reassured that the American forces would not immediately leave Syria, a diplomatic source of the Zionist regime reportedly suggests.

According to Israel’s Arutz Sheva 7 news website, the reassurance came via a visit by a top US general.

General Joseph Votel, the head of the US military’s Central Command (CENTOM), arrived in occupied Palestine on Monday to meet with top military officials from Israel, including the chief of staff of the US military, for that purpose.

General Votel, the head of US forces in Syria, was dispatched after about month from US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US forces would leave the war-ravaged country “very soon.”

“We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon,” said the president in an Ohio speech. “Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon. Very soon, we’re coming out. We’re going to have a hundred percent of the…

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