{"id":32016,"date":"2019-02-06T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32016"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:22:22","slug":"top-us-general-trump-did-not-consult-on-syria-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32016","title":{"rendered":"Top US general: Trump did not consult on Syria announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN)<\/cite>The commander of US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said Tuesday he &#8220;was not consulted&#8221; prior to President Donald Trump&#8217;s December announcement that the US would withdraw its troops from Syria. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">And despite Trump&#8217;s claims that ISIS has been defeated, Gen. Joseph Votel said the fight against the terror group is &#8220;not over&#8221; and warned ISIS could regroup after US troops leave.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I was not aware of the specific announcement. Certainly we are aware that he had expressed a desire and intent in the past to depart Iraq, depart Syria,&#8221; Votel said during a Tuesday hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CNN)The commander of US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said Tuesday he &#8220;was not consulted&#8221; prior to President Donald Trump&#8217;s December announcement that the US would withdraw its troops from Syria. And despite Trump&#8217;s claims that ISIS has been defeated, Gen. Joseph Votel said the fight against the terror&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32016","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=32016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}