{"id":31801,"date":"2018-12-27T06:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=31801"},"modified":"2018-12-27T06:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T06:59:19","slug":"us-president-and-first-lady-visit-us-troops-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/world\/us-president-and-first-lady-visit-us-troops-in-iraq\/2018\/","title":{"rendered":"US President and First Lady visit US troops in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have made an unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">.The White House said they travelled there &#8220;late on Christmas night&#8221; to thank troops for &#8220;their service, their success and their sacrifice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Trump said the US has no plans to pull out of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trip came days after Defence Secretary Jim Mattis resigned over divisions about strategy in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US still has some five thousand troops in Iraq to support the government in its fight against what remains of the Islamic State, IS group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FLOTUS<\/a> Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rDlhITDvm1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rDlhITDvm1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1078026520021544960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have made an unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq. .The White House said they travelled there &#8220;late on Christmas night&#8221; to thank troops for &#8220;their service, their success and their sacrifice&#8221;. Mr. Trump said the US has no plans to pull out of Iraq. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}