Summary
A senior U.S. administration official insisted Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pullout from Syria will not change his hard line on Iran, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad.
In a Senate hearing, Trump's Democratic rivals said he had strengthened adversaries by pulling U.S. troops who had permitted de facto autonomy in northeastern Syria by Kurdish fighters, a force that led the battle to crush Daesh (ISIS) extremists.
Administration officials, notably former national security advisor John Bolton, had cited the Iranian presence in Syria as a reason to maintain U.S. forces.
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