{"id":369599,"date":"2018-07-16T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-to-stay-in-syria-as-long-as-iran-is-there\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:34:03","slug":"us-to-stay-in-syria-as-long-as-iran-is-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-to-stay-in-syria-as-long-as-iran-is-there\/","title":{"rendered":"US to stay in Syria as long as Iran is there"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US National Security Adviser John Bolton says Washington\u00a0has no plans to end its military presence in Syria, signaling an about-face in President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to pull out troops from the Arab country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump announced in April that he was going to withdraw\u00a0American forces from Syria, saying\u00a0their declared mission had come to an end after the defeat of the Daesh terror group.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, however, told\u00a0ABC News broadcaster on Sunday\u00a0that the US was not going anywhere as long as Iran remained in Syria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the president has made it clear that we are there until the ISIS territorial caliphate is removed and as long as the Iranian menace continues throughout the Middle East,\u201d Bolton said, using another name for Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>The former US envoy to the UN said Trump was going to discuss the matter with Russian President Vladimir Putin once they met in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador to the United Nations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/16\/568264\/US-Syria-Iran-Bolton-Trump-Russia-Putin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US National Security Adviser John Bolton says Washington\u00a0has no plans to end its military presence in Syria, signaling an about-face in President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to pull out troops from the Arab country.\u00a0 Trump announced in April that he was going to withdraw\u00a0American forces from Syria, saying\u00a0their declared mission had come to an end after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}