• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (center, right), a Republican from Kentucky, speaks with Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican from Missouri, as they head to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday. The Senate advanced legislation on Monday that would impose new sanctions on Syria, more than a month after President Donald Trump said he would withdraw American forces from the conflict there. | BLOOMBERG
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (center, right), a Republican from Kentucky, speaks with Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican from Missouri, as they head to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday. The Senate advanced legislation on Monday that would impose new sanctions on Syria, more than a month after President Donald Trump said he would withdraw American forces from the conflict there. | BLOOMBERG

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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a rare break with President Donald Trump and proposed a measure urging the U.S. to continue the fight against Islamic State and al-Qaida in Syria and Afghanistan and avoid any “precipitous withdrawal.”

McConnell said an amendment he plans to offer to legislation that would impose new sanctions on Syria and that it would reassure U.S. allies in both countries.

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