Still, his administration has continued to push ahead on cooperation on other issues, including a small cease-fire in Syria and a series of meetings on “irritants” in the relationship, including the return of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the U.S.

The White House was in damage-control mode just weeks later for not disclosing another meeting Trump had with Putin during the summit. They met at a reception in front of cameras, shaking hands and briefly chatting. But at a dinner that evening, the two spoke at length, using only Putin’s interpreter, in a breach of protocol; the administration criticized scrutiny of that conversation as “hysteria.”

Syria: ‘America first’ becomes American firepower becomes ...?

The “America first” president shocked the world with a strong response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Just days after the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly attacked the town of Khan Sheikhoun with sarin, a nerve gas, Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk strikes on the air base where Assad’s planes are said to have taken off.

“I now have responsibility, and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly,” he said at a Rose Garden press conference.

Critics on the left and right were surprised that the businessman who had decried years of wasteful spending on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was ready to play the world’s policeman, but allies — from the U.K. to Israel — applauded the response.

Since then, however, the administration has pushed hard to work with Russia in Syria, brokering a small cease-fire together with Jordan in Syria’s southwest corner. Trump has announced plans to expand that agreement, despite criticism that it has aided the Assad regime by freeing it up to take on rebels elsewhere and that it has cemented Iranian influence in the area by doing nothing to expel Iranian-backed militias.

The push to join forces to fight terrorism in the civil-war-plagued country has led to speculation that the White House is conceding to Russia’s plans for Syria, abandoning support for the opposition and calls for the removal of the brutal dictator Assad.

ISIS: After liberation of Mosul, the fight continues

Three years after Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, was taken by ISIS, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared Mosul “liberated” this month. The battle, waged by Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters and backed by the U.S.-led coalition, lasted nine months.

It was a considerable a success for the people of Iraq — 940,000 of whom were displaced by the Mosul campaign. While about 220,000 have returned to eastern Mosul, the United Nations estimates it could cost $1 billion to restore basic infrastructure to the city.

Extensive clearing operations are underway to check rebel tunnels and caves and identify ISIS fighters still undetected. Thousands of policeman and border guards, trained by the coalition, will now have the daunting task of holding the city and fending off any incursions.

Now Iraqi forces are moving west to secure the city of Tal Afar. At the same time, Syrian Democratic Forces and coalition troops are in the second month in the fight for Raqqa, ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria. The Pentagon has acknowledged the SDF is taking heavy casualties but making progress into the city center.

In addition to these areas, ISIS still has strongholds in places like Hawija, Iraq, and south along the Euphrates River Valley — retaining a little over 2 percent of territory in Iraq and slightly more than 8 percent in Syria.

Unlike in Iraq, once ISIS loses its foothold in Syria, there won’t be a unified government to maintain stability. For now, the coalition is preparing local groups to police in and around Raqqa. But the larger war between rebel groups and Assad’s forces, supported by Russia and Iran, will prove a challenging environment, even in a post-ISIS era.

NATO: Trump talks tough but turns off allies

Trump’s major address to NATO was an equally telling moment of how his administration has upended U.S. foreign policy.

He stopped in Brussels in May, on his first overseas trip as president, for a speech unveiling two memorials at the entrance to NATO headquarters, including one commemorating the alliance’s Article 5, which commits members to collective defense. But on the campaign trail and as president-elect, he repeatedly blasted NATO as “obsolete,” raising doubts about his commitment to it and that mutual-defense pledge.

While he changed his tune in April about “obsolete,” he used the speech in May as an opportunity to put longtime allies on notice, demanding they pay their “fair share” in defense spending and even suggesting that some countries owe the U.S. money for not having done so.

Trump did not explicitly pledge a commitment to Article 5, something European allies were looking for, with leaders standing next to Trump at the ceremony exchanging looks of bewilderment and amusement.

While Trump made that pledge at a press conference with the Romanian president the next month — and called for unity in a major address in Warsaw, Poland, in July, critics say the damage was already. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a crowd of political supporters one week after the Brussels speech, Europe “really must take our fate into our own hands.”

Afghanistan: The mother of all bombs but no new strategy

Three months into office, Trump greenlighted the use of the most powerful nonnuclear weapon ever used in combat, nicknamed the mother of all bombs. The 22,000-pound GBU-43, or massive ordnance air blast, was dropped on a complex of ISIS-controlled caves in eastern Afghanistan on April 13.

The Pentagon has declared ISIS’ numbers in Afghanistan are declining. Last week the U.S. took out the third emir of ISIS in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, after killing the second emir in April.

Though only halfway through its fighting season, the Taliban has lost some territory — resorting to false social media claims of U.S. casualties to distract from battlefield losses.

Yet Afghanistan remains a dangerous place, with terrorist strongholds in several areas of the country. Seven U.S. service members have been killed in action there so far in 2017. (Nine were killed in action in all of 2016.) And it is uncertain whether Afghan forces will be able to hold the territory they manage to recapture.

The Trump administration’s long-awaited review of the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan was supposed to be rolled out in mid-July and is expected to include as many as 4,000 additional U.S. troops, meaning the 16-year war is far from over.

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