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...“Trump’s pattern of non-reaction followed by extreme overreaction has destroyed regional trust in him,” says William Burns, a former senior US diplomat, now head of the Carnegie Endowment....
...William Cohen, a former defence secretary and friend of Mr Mattis, questioned what role Turkey had played in convincing Mr Trump to make the Syria decision....
...The move, which surprised the president’s closest advisers and startled foreign policy analysts, prompted the resignation of Jim Mattis as defence secretary and caused Brett McGurk, US envoy for the global...
...A few days later, Brett McGurk, US envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, also stepped down....
...Last week, Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition for defeating Isis, told reporters at a State Department briefing that although the “end of the physical caliphate” was “coming...
...William Cohen, a friend of Mr Mattis who was secretary of defence in the Clinton administration, said Mr Mattis was “distraught” about the Syria decision....
...Additional reporting Aime Williams...
...Brett McGurk, the top state department official responsible for tackling Isis, also resigned in protest over the withdrawal....
...A quarter of all UK bars now offer cocktails, according to the William Grant & Sons UK 2015 market report....
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