Earlier this week former Vice President Joe Biden and others in the Democratic presidential debate inferred President Donald Trump had greatly increased the terrorism threat inside the US by withdrawing troops from northern Syria and allowing some ISIS fighters to escape. The World’s Rupa Shenoy ran that assumption by an array of counter-terrorism experts for a reality check.
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