Middle East

Pentagon Officials Push Back Against Bolton’s Syria War Talk

MISSION CREEP

John Bolton says U.S. troops will stay in Syria as long as Iran’s do. Never mind ISIS—welcome to an even more confusing era in a war whose endpoint just got yanked away.

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