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| US not to pull out troops from Syria until goals accomplished - UN envoy Haley | US not to pull out troops from Syria until goals accomplished - UN envoy Haley |
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| The US will not pull its troops out of Syria until its goals are accomplished there, ambassador to UN Nikki Haley said. This comes after Washington carried out airstrikes in Syria in response for an alleged chemical attack. | The US will not pull its troops out of Syria until its goals are accomplished there, ambassador to UN Nikki Haley said. This comes after Washington carried out airstrikes in Syria in response for an alleged chemical attack. |
| US currently has over 2,000 troops in Syria and a number of contractors. | US currently has over 2,000 troops in Syria and a number of contractors. |
| While it is America's goals to see the troops come home, "we are not going to leave until we know we have accomplished those things," she told Fox News Sunday. | |
| Haley added the United States wants to ensure that chemical weapons are not used in a way that is of risk to US interests, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is defeated and Iran’s actions are monitored. | |
| US officials were previously saying that their goal in Syria is just defeating ISIS. President Donald Trump said earlier that US would withdraw from Syria “soon” and Washington would “let the other people take care of it now,” but no deadline for any such move has been announced. | |
| Haley’s comment comes just a day after the US, the UK and France carried out a massive missile strike on Syria’s targets. Missiles fired from warships and jets hit a scientific facility in the vicinity of Damascus, which the coalition claimed was involved in the production of chemical and biological weapons, as well as a former missile base west of Homs and Al-Dumayr air base east of the Syrian capital. | |
| Syrian air defense units were scrambled to repel the aerial invasion, intercepting 71 out of 103 of the missiles, according to Russian Ministry of Defense. Pentagon said Syrian actions hadn't had any effect. | |
| Washington and its allies said the strikes were carried out in retaliation to last week’s alleged chemical attack in Douma, a town near Damascus, but failed to present compelling evidence. Announcing the air invasion, the White House said it has a large body of "reliable intelligence" as well as "social media users, non-governmental organizations, and other open-source outlets” implicating the Syrian government in the chemical incident. | |
| Notably, the bombing occurred just hours before the UN's Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) experts were set to carry out an on-site inspection in Douma on Saturday to establish whether chemical weapons had been used there. | |
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