Trump Gives US Troops Four Months to Leave Syria – Report

The New York Times has cited two unnamed US administration officials as saying that President Donald Trump will give the Pentagon about four months to withdraw US troops from Syria.
The officials referred to the US president’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, head of the Combined Joint Task Force fighting Daesh in the region, during which Trump said that the troops could have several months to ensure a “succinct departure”.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Robertson, in turn, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that “I’ll let the president’s words speak for themselves.”
The developments come a day after Trump tweeted that his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria was right and that the US military will be returning home “with victory” over Daesh.

“If anybody but Donald Trump did what I did in Syria, which was an ISIS loaded mess when I became President, they would be a national hero,” he tweeted.

The remarks came after the White House announced on December 19 that it will be withdrawing US troops from Syria within the next 60 to 100 days.