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What’s next in Syria after the US withdraws?

After President Trump announced his intention to remove US forces from Syria, what happens now?

On December 19, 2018, President Trump announced he wants to pull troops out of Syria because the United States military had achieved its goal of defeating the Islamic State militant group there.

In this Q&A, terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies’ Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, addresses the president’s decision and what comes next.

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