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Questions about Syria and potential for an ISIS resurgence loom for Trump
2025-04-26 19:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
At a news conference this month, President-elect Donald Trump bragged, We defeated ISIS.It has been a point of pride for him, and it is true. In the first year of Trumps first term,U.S. forces, working with Syrian Kurdish allies,defeatedthe Islamic States self-proclaimed caliphate and liberatedits capital. But the fall of the Assad regime has left Syria at risk of coming apart under pressure from a variety of terrorist groups, local militias and Israeli airstrikes. And Syrias interim leaders, while proclaiming moderate intentions, have rootsin Al Qaeda andanother terrorist group, Hayat al Sham (HTS). Thenightmare scenario for many experts is thatISIS could re-establish its stronghold in the fledgling state and export more terrorism to the West or inspire it, as it did the New Years Day attack in New Orleans.The situation means that, once he is in office,Trump willmost likelyhave to make some hard choices insist on withdrawing all or some of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, in l...
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