Trump names Mattis successor at Pentagon, says Syria pullout will be 'slow'

President Trump announced earlier in the week that the US will be puling out its 2,000 troops stationed in Syria to fight the Islamic State and Secretary of Defense Mattis, who had opposed the decision, resigned in protest after failing to persuade the president to change his mind

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