Esper says Trump orders US troops to leave northern Syria

Amid growing chaos in Syria, President Donald Trump has ordered all US troops to withdraw from the country's north to avoid an "untenable" conflict between Turkey and US-backed Kurdish fighters, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday.

The approximately 1,000 US troops in Syria are not leaving the country entirely, Esper told CBS' "Face the Nation."
Trump, in a tweet Sunday, said: "Very smart not to be involved in the intense fighting along the Turkish Border, for a change. Those that mistakenly got us into the Middle East Wars are still pushing to fight. They have no idea what a bad decision they have made. Why are they not asking for a Declaration of War?"