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ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq, and that the military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent a resurgence in that country. Esper isn't ruling out the idea that U.S. forces would conduct counterterrorism missions from Iraq into Syria. But he says those details will be worked out over time.
LONDON (AP) — EU leaders will be looking at a request by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delay Brexit after the British Parliament postponed a decision on whether to back his divorce deal. In a letter, Johnson also makes clear that he personally opposed delaying the exit, scheduled for Oct. 31. European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted: "The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react." The French president says he's not happy with a delay.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurds say they're ready to pull back from the town of Ras al-Ayn if Turkey allows the evacuation of its remaining fighters and civilians. A senior official of the Syrian Democratic Forces says the Kurds will withdraw 30 kilometers, or 19 miles, from the border Sunday if Turkey honors its part of the U.S.-brokered deal. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman tells AP Turkey wants the Syrian government to also move out of the area so it can resettle up to 2 million refugees there.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is dropping his plan to hold the next Group of Seven world leaders' meeting at his Doral golf resort. The move comes after scathing criticism and accusations that he is using the presidency to enrich himself.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump seems to have discovered it's easier and often more satisfying to get things done through administrative action. Before he was president, he described them as "power grabs" and a "basic disaster." But he's switched sides in a big way, and it turns out that in each year of his presidency, he's issued more executive orders than did President Barack Obama during the same span.
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