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Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump appeared Monday to water down shock plans for an immediate pullout of US troops from Syria, even as he defiantly claimed his achievements in the conflict should make him a "national hero."
The tweeted comment came the day after a senior Republican senator said Trump had promised to stay in Syria to finish the job of destroying the Islamic State group -- days after he shocked allies, and his own military establishment, by saying troops were coming home.
"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," Trump tweeted, using another acronym for IS.
"ISIS is mostly gone, we're slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families, while at the same time fighting ISIS remnants," he said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-softens-syria-pullout-schedule-claims-hero-status-142657586.html

The tweeted comment came the day after a senior Republican senator said Trump had promised to stay in Syria to finish the job of destroying the Islamic State group -- days after he shocked allies, and his own military establishment, by saying troops were coming home.
"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," Trump tweeted, using another acronym for IS.
"ISIS is mostly gone, we're slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families, while at the same time fighting ISIS remnants," he said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-softens-syria-pullout-schedule-claims-hero-status-142657586.html
