Still Fighting, US Troops from Syria to Afghanistan Await Trump Orders
U.S. soldiers provide cover for Iraqi troops advancing on Mosul on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2016. They are from Battery C, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Strike.
By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Council on Foreign Relations Read bio
January 7, 2017
Special operators move ahead with plans for the press to Raqqa, but uncertainty clouds US war plans.
More U.S. special operations forces to Iraq? More U.S. troops in Syria? Stay in Afghanistan? Calm Turkey or stick with the Syrian Kurdish forces doing the fighting? Try for both?
Welcome to Trump’s foreign policy options: same as the old ones, only more so.
President-elect Trump takes office with no shortage of global conflicts. The question is what his arrival at the White House will mean for their handling. And the truth is, no one knows.
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