Joe Gould

Top foreign affairs lawmakers from the United States and multiple European allies on Monday condemned both President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American military forces from Syria and the Turkish invasion that followed.

Top congressional Democrats ― and two high-profile Republican senators ― decried the U.S.-brokered deal in which President Donald Trump agreed to drop sanctions against NATO ally Turkey if it would pause its military offensive in Syria.

House and Senate lawmakers on Thursday left Pentagon briefings on the crisis in Syria frustrated with the tangle of problems that came with President Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria and voicing new fears the Islamic State will regroup to wage terror.

Negotiations over the fiscal 2020 NDAA have hit a speed bump the size of northern Syria, according to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

As Congress seeks a way to reverse the damage from the U.S. military pullback from northern Syria, the House is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s decision.

U.S. lawmakers are readying bills to sanction and potentially ban U.S. arms exports to Turkey to punish it over military operations in northern Syria.

Congress’ most concrete response to the unfolding Syrian crisis includes sanctions on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The U.S. president has decided to withdraw his troops from northeastern Syria, essentially clearing the path for a Turkish military invasion of the region.