Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: US withdrawal from Syria doesn't change mission to destroy ISIS and stop Iran

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who's about to go to the Mideast, told CNBC Monday that the U.S. withdrawal from Syria does not change the mission of destroying ISIS and stopping Iran from influencing the region through its state-sponsored terrorism operations.

Pompeo told CNBC's Wilfred Frost in a wide-ranging interview that the Syria move is a "change of tactics" but not the U.S. mission.

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