Trump faces tightening web of US adversariesBut Trump has stiff challenges in Syria and beyond.
Trump may have to quickly decide whether to maintain a deployment of hundreds of US troops in Syria to fight any resurgence of ISIS.
And America’s problems with Russia, North Korea and Iran are compounded by the loose but expanding strategic synergy between the trio and China.
And he announced the airstrikes by B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets and A-10 aircraft against ISIS targets in central Syria.
McMaster, urged his old boss on Sunday to treat Iran, Russia, China and North Korea as different threads of the same challenge.
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