(Bloomberg) Eli Lake - In an interview on Jan. 4, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed that the U.S. remains committed to kicking Iran and its proxies out of Syria - and to a broader strategy of countering Iran across the region. "That campaign hasn't changed one lick," he told me. "A component of that is being altered, the reduction of the forces in Syria is being changed, but the mission set hasn't changed a bit." The U.S. will continue to work to reduce Iranian influence in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
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