Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., continued on Sunday his criticism of President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. military forces from northern Syria, saying the president is using troops as “paid mercenaries” and questioning the role Congress should play in the decision-making process. He’s moving other troops into Saudi Arabia," said Amash, who earlier this year left the Republican Party over his disagreements with Trump. His comments were the first to specifically lay out where American troops will go as they shift from Syria and what the counter-ISIS fight could look like. The developments made clear that one of President Trump's rationales for withdrawing troops from Syria was not going to come to pass any time soon. The U.S. currently has more than 5,000 American forces in Iraq, under an agreement between the two countries.

Source: Fox News October 20, 2019 16:30 UTC