Gen. Joseph Votel, the most senior U.S. military commander overseeing operations in Syria, told Congress Tuesday that he was totally out of the loop when President Trump decided in December to pull all U.S. troops out of the country.

Votel, the four-star Army general who heads U.S. Central Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Trump neither sought his advice nor informed him in advance of the decision.

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