Trump says US to withdraw from Syria

Military operation in eastern Ghouta 'nearly over', Russia's Lavrov says

RICHFIELD, Ohio - US President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that US forces would pull out of Syria "very soon" and lamented what he said was Washington's waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars.

In an address to industrial workers in Ohio, Trump said forces with US help were close to securing all of the territory that the Islamic State group once claimed.