{"id":92093,"date":"2019-10-22T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92093"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:43:35","slug":"us-troops-leave-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92093","title":{"rendered":"US Troops Leave Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-89099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LMADIS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US troops are leaving Syria but Iraq doesn\u2019t want them to stay in Iraq: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/10\/22\/iraq-american-troops-leaving-syria-cannot-stay-in-iraq\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/10\/22\/iraq-american-troops-leaving-syria-cannot-stay-in-iraq\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BAGHDAD (AP) \u2014 U.S. troops leaving Syria and heading to neighboring Iraq do not have permission to stay in the country, Iraq&#8217;s military said Tuesday as American forces continued to pull out of northern Syria after Turkey&#8217;s invasion of the border region.<\/p>\n<p>The statement appears to contradict U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who has said that under the current plan, all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the military would continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent its resurgence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump ordered the bulk of U.S. troops in Syria to withdraw after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear in a phone call that his forces were about to invade Syria to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Turkey considers terrorists. &#8211; article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US troops are leaving Syria but Iraq doesn\u2019t want them to stay in Iraq: \u00a0https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/10\/22\/iraq-american-troops-leaving-syria-cannot-stay-in-iraq\/ BAGHDAD &hellip; <a title=\"US Troops Leave Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92093\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Troops Leave Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92094,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92093\/revisions\/92094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}