July 8, 2015 | Quoted by The Tower

Defense Secretary: Obama Administration Will Not Oust Assad

In an exchange yesterday at a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter if he thought that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would remain in power after President Barack Obama leaves office, Foreign Policy reported.

Carter then walked back his comment, saying that he hoped it would be Assad who would leave power first.

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Earlier this week, Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed, “Though Obama’s policy has long recognized this Iranian zone of influence in Syria tacitly, the administration is increasingly signaling this recognition publicly.”

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Syria