Earlier, White House officials speaking to US media on the condition of anonymity reportedly said that Bolton helped to ensure that the US decision to pull out of a key nuclear arms control treaty with Moscow was made without consulting any of the relevant departments or agencies.
Senior Trump administration officials with knowledge of Russia-US negotiations on the possible joint withdrawal of US and Iranian forces from Syria said the talks ‘largely fell apart' after National Security Advisor John Bolton announced that US troops would stay put in the Middle Eastern country indefinitely until “all Iranian forces” were pulled out, the Washington Post has reported, citing officials.
According to the newspaper, President Trump's decision on Thursday to get the ball rolling on recognising the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of israel really began “to gain real traction” only after Bolton arrived in the White House last April.
Russian, US and Jordanian negotiators held talks in Amman and an undisclosed European city in mid-2017 aimed at establishing de-escalation zones in the southwestern Syrian provinces of Daraa, Quneitra and As-Suwayda, discussing the illegal US military presence in Syria, as well that of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, and their possible withdrawal from the war-torn country.
israel opposed the creation of the de-escalation…
