🇺🇸🇸🇾Should US troop withdrawal from Syria be surprising? | Al Jazeera English

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President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to withdraw troops from Syria has taken the United States’s allies in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS) by surprise.
Many of them believe there is still a threat of ISIL regaining ground.
However, Sami Hamdi, the editor-in-chief of the current affairs magazine International Interest, says the move should not have caused shock since it is in line with Trump’s long-standing vision.

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