Updated at 5:20 a.m. ET on Thursday
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled to Iraq to visit U.S. troops on the day after Christmas, an unannounced trip about which the president nonetheless had been hinting for some time.
The Trumps’ arrival at Al Asad Air Base followed the president’s recent orders to pull back on U.S. troop deployments elsewhere — orders that have come under intense scrutiny.
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