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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/us/politics/trump-iraq-troops-syria-iran.html
Trump Calls for Keeping Troops in Iraq to Watch Iran
(New York Times) Eric Schmitt and Alissa J. Rubin - President Trump plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq to monitor and maintain pressure on neighboring Iran, committing to an American military presence in the region as he moves to withdraw forces from Syria and Afghanistan. "I want to be able to watch Iran," Trump said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "We're going to keep watching and we're going to keep seeing and if there's trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we're going to know it before they do." The U.S. has quietly been negotiating with Iraq for weeks to allow perhaps hundreds of American commandos and support troops now operating in Syria to shift to bases in Iraq and strike the Islamic State from there.