Washington: The US Senate on Tuesday condemned Donald Trump's call on the withdrawl of troops from Syria and continued to expand the economic sanctions on the terror affected country courtesy a 77 per cent voting in the favour to pass the Bill S.1.
The bill has also been approved of a veto-proof majority by recieving a two-third vote of the senate on Tuesday afternoon.
The legislation is yet to be passed by the House of Representatives and after that both versions of the passed bill must be merged at the reconciliation conference for Trump to sign.
Trump has been reportedly considering plans to withdraw around 7,000 of the 14,000 US troops deployed to Afghanistan after ordering the Department of Defense to pull out all 2,000 US soldiers stationed in Syria.
On Wednesday, Trump will address a gathering of foreign ministers from the countries in US-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) on the path forward.
Trump's call on troop withdrawl from Syria condemned by US Senate
The US Senate expanded the economic sanctions on Syria after a 77 per cent vote in the favour of the bill
