„What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria,“ Trump told Reuters on Tuesday morning at his resort in Doral, Florida. „You‘re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.“

The Republican nominee, who has called for a rapprochement with Russia in order to jointly combat ISIS, argued that his Democratic rival‘s calls for taking a more aggressive posture in Syria to bring the conflict there to an end and combat ISIS will only draw the US into a larger war.