{"id":27152,"date":"2018-12-27T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2018-12-27T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:22:25","slug":"what-is-trumps-strategy-for-syria-and-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27152","title":{"rendered":"What is Trump&#8217;s strategy for Syria and the region?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"89\">\n<p>For the first time since he became president two years ago, Donald Trump visited American troops in a conflict zone &#8211; Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>His surprise three-hour stop was at an air base west of Baghdad the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t meet any of the Iraqi leadership but invited Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to the White House in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump used the opportunity to defend the withdrawal of troops from Syria saying it was made possible by the defeat of ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>But critics have condemned what they see as the president&#8217;s increasingly isolationist foreign policy, saying it will give ISIL a chance to regroup.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the work of US forces is complete and regional forces will ensure ISIL remains dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s reported Trump also wants to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan from 14,000 to 7,000.<\/p>\n<p>What is Trump&#8217;s strategy for the region and what message is he trying to send?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Ali al-Nashmi &#8211; Political Analyst<\/p>\n<p>Peter Galbraith &#8211; former U.S. Ambassador<\/p>\n<p>Afzal Ashraf &#8211; University of Nottingham<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since he became president two years ago, Donald Trump visited American troops in a conflict zone &#8211; Iraq. His surprise three-hour stop was at an air base west of Baghdad the day after Christmas. He didn&#8217;t meet any of the Iraqi leadership but invited Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27152","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\/27152","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=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}