As US exits Syria, Mideast faces a post-American era | World News, The Indian Express

As US exits Syria, Mideast faces a post-American era | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Beirut |Published: January 12, 2019 9:47:24 am

As US exits Syria, Mideast faces a post-American era

American leaders have offered a range reasons for the great investment of American blood and treasure in the region: to replace dictatorships with democracies, to enhance the rule of law, to support allied governments and to fight terrorism.

U.S. Special Forces troops near Manbij, Syria. The pending withdrawal from Syria is the latest example of a broader American disengagement from the Middle East. Russia and Iran are filling the void. (File/Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

By Ben Hubbard

When Turkey, Iran and Russia meet to talk about the end of the war in Syria, they do so without the United States.

Peace talks to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been frozen for years, but the long-awaited Trump plan to break the impasse has yet to arrive.

And now, despite conflicting messages about how and when it will happen, the United States is set to withdraw from Syria.

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