| | | Date: Apr 25, 2018 | | Source: The Daily Star |  |  |  |
| | Trump says US wants 'lasting' footprint in Syria | Agence France Presse
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday appeared to dial back a promise to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria immediately, saying it was important to not allow Iranian influence to grow in the country.
Stating that troops would be coming home soon, Trump nonetheless said that the United States wanted to "leave a strong and lasting footprint " in the country.
"We don't want to give Iran open season to the Mediterranean," Trump told a joint press conference with his visiting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
"We're going to be coming home relatively soon. We finished at least almost our work with respect to Daesh in Syria, Daesh in Iraq, and we have done a job that nobody has been able to do."
"But with that being said, I do want to come home, but I want to come home also with having accomplished what we have to accomplish." |
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