US pulled multiple ways in Syria as Islamic State recedes

WASHINGTON (AP) " For the last years, the United States could neatly sum its objective in Syria in a single, uncontroversial bullet point: fighting the Islamic State group. Now that the extremists have been squeezed from all but the last bits of their former territory, the Trump administration is struggling to define the boundaries of its mission, and how and when America's lengthy engagement will end.A crisis between the U.S. and Turkey, triggered by the latter's new military [...]


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