White House Releases Update on Global Counterterrorism Efforts by Cal Pringle – Defense News
Libya has been excluded from a list of locations where U.S. military personnel are deployed and equipped for combat as part of counterterrorism operations.
The exclusion, from a letter to the speaker of the House from President Donald Trump, is a change from the same report sent six months ago. The report is required by the War Powers Resolution.
The Republican president and Democrats in the House are currently at odds over military support in Yemen, where “a small number” of U.S. military personnel are deployed, according to the June 11 letter.
The latest letter also reveals that the number of U.S. military personnel in Lebanon has declined by 50 percent since the last report, to 60…