{"id":26338,"date":"2018-12-20T23:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26338"},"modified":"2018-12-20T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:23:47","slug":"us-defense-secretary-mattis-to-retire-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26338","title":{"rendered":"US Defense Secretary Mattis to retire, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"74\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who was known as a stabilising force in President Donald Trump&#8217;s Cabinet, will leave his job at the end of February, Trump said in a tweet on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The departure of Mattis had been anticipated since Trump announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing US troops from Syria despite opposition from US allies and Trump&#8217;s own top military officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In his tweet, Trump thanked Mattis for his service, and said a new defence chief will be named shortly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation letter, Mattis said Trump deserves a defence secretary &#8220;whose views are better aligned&#8221; with his.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who was known as a stabilising force in President Donald Trump&#8217;s Cabinet, will leave his job at the end of February, Trump said in a tweet on Thursday. The departure of Mattis had been anticipated since Trump announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing US&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}