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Syria’s Changing Power Grid: What Turkey Wants

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12.22.2018 at 04:13pm

Syria’s Changing Power Grid: What Turkey Wants by Steven Cook – Council on Foreign Relations

President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday announced that the approximately two thousand U.S. forces in northeastern Syria will leave immediately, now that the forces of the so-called Islamic State have been defeated. Trump’s announcement set off a scramble within the U.S. government to develop a plan for withdrawal, as well as a mixture of alarm and criticism from lawmakers of both parties. The regional jockeying for power will be intense; Russia, Iran, and the Syrian regime stand to gain the most…

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