{"id":27611,"date":"2019-01-01T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T04:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27611"},"modified":"2019-01-01T04:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T04:23:01","slug":"iraqi-jets-strike-daesh-sites-in-syria-as-trump-slows-pullout-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27611","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi jets strike Daesh sites in Syria as Trump slows pullout schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1428456\/middle-east\" readability=\"89\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: Iraqi warplanes hit a meeting of Daesh leaders near Deir Ezzor in Syria on Monday, destroying the building they were gathered in, the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe statement said F-16 fighter jets carried out the raid around Al-Sousa village in eastern Syria, as \u201c30 leaders from Daesh gangs\u201d met in the building.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe strike came a day after Iraq\u2019s government hinted at greater involvement for its armed forces in Syria as the US begins withdrawing troops from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on Monday on shock plans for an immediate pullout of US troops from Syria, but said his drive to end American involvement in wars made him a \u201chero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe shift came as senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Trump had promised to stay in Syria to finish the job of defeating Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump had earlier stunned allies \u2014 and prompted the resignation of his respected defense secretary, Jim Mattis \u2014 by abruptly announcing that Daesh was defeated and that US troops in Syria were ready to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, in a tweet early Monday, President\u00a0 Trump seemed to signal a more cautious schedule for pulling out the troops which support local forces.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families, while at the same time fighting\u201d Daesh remnants, Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn contrast to previously emphatic victory declarations, Trump said that Daesh \u201cis mostly gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Sunday, Graham, who is one of Trump\u2019s principal allies in Congress, lunched at the White House to urge a rethink on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nGraham emerged after two hours, saying Trump \u201cunderstands the need to finish the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI think the president is committed to making sure when we leave Syria that Daesh is completely defeated,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother prominent critic of the pullout plan was retired US Army General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of US and international forces in Afghanistan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Sunday, he warned that a US pullout would likely cause \u201cgreater instability\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: Iraqi warplanes hit a meeting of Daesh leaders near Deir Ezzor in Syria on Monday, destroying the building they were gathered in, the military said in a statement. The statement said F-16 fighter jets carried out the raid around Al-Sousa village in eastern Syria, as \u201c30 leaders from Daesh gangs\u201d met in the building.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27611","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\/27611","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=27611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}