Trump agrees to keep US troops in Syria until ISIS is defeated: reports

The Hill: President Trump has instructed the U.S. military to prepare for a withdrawal from Syria, but has agreed not to pull the roughly 2,000 troops out of the country until the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group is defeated, according to multiple reports.

A senior administration official told NBC News that Trump, in a Tuesday meeting with top national security officials, reluctantly agreed to keep U.S. troops in the war-torn country for an undecided period of time in order to ensure the destruction of the terror group.

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