{"id":389765,"date":"2018-12-19T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-signals-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:05:29","slug":"presstv-trump-signals-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-signals-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump signals US troop withdrawal from Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has declared victory against Daesh terrorists in Syria as reports suggest that he is planning to pull out American troops from the conflict-torn country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,\u201d Trump tweeted Wednesday, using an acronym for the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1075397797929775105\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1075397797929775105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The declaration comes after the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported that Trump is preparing to \u201cimmediately\u201d withdraw the 2,000 American troops in the country.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment on the reports, Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said on Wednesday only that \u201cat this time, we continue to work by, with and through our partners in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9q08PhBH1g?rel=0\" width=\"555\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The US has reportedly more than 2,000 troops stationed in eastern Syria, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/19\/583412\/Trump-signals-US-troop-withdrawal-from-Syria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has declared victory against Daesh terrorists in Syria as reports suggest that he is planning to pull out American troops from the conflict-torn country. \u201cWe have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,\u201d Trump tweeted Wednesday, using an acronym for the terrorist group. We [&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-389765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}