Are we to believe that State Dep. Communication team really thinks it’s a good idea to tweet out this bit of Pompeo’s interview out at this time? “we are leading from the front” #Syria https://t.co/lVKFgaSEk9
— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) October 15, 2019
Pompeo calls it "leading from the front;" the Pentagon calls it "a handover." https://t.co/Ncmg7JXvR7
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) October 15, 2019
The U.S. evacuated the small number of American diplomats assigned to northeastern Syria as the Trump administration prepares to withdraw military forces from the country, said current and former administration officials https://t.co/noXSR3Z4qH
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 14, 2019
Russians have fun exploring the hastily abandoned American military base in Syria: “Yesterday it was them and today it is us here. Let’s see how they lived and what they ate.” https://t.co/WcVsOWct1N
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) October 15, 2019
The Assad regime has retaken more territory in a week than it did in the last few years, at basically no cost, because of an operation acquiesced to by one ostensible regime opponent, led by another, and backed by anti-regime rebels. You can't make it up. https://t.co/z9rDN5P3R7
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) October 15, 2019
Russia, already the key foreign power in Syria, stepped into the void caused by Trump's withdrawal of US troops by deploying patrols to prevent clashes between Syrian and Turkish forceshttps://t.co/zBFDUPTzwM
— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 15, 2019
As the Middle East reels from President Trump’s erratic foreign policy, Russia is savoring a fresh chance to build its status as a resurgent world power and cast itself as a force for stability in Syria https://t.co/YZYaYb3dyK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 15, 2019