Brett McGurk, US special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat ISIS, submitted his resignation effective Dec 31 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, a State Department official said.
In an abrupt policy shift, Trump announced on Wednesday that Washington would withdraw the roughly 2,000 US troops in Syria, upending a pillar of American policy in the Middle East and alarming US allies.
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