US President Donald Trump has said that some "immensely wealthy" countries in the Middle East have to pay for American protection and deploy their own troops in Syria, Al Jazeera reports.
Speaking at a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, Trump said these countries "wouldn't last a week" without US support.
"Countries that are in the area, some of which are immensely wealthy, would not be there except for the United States, and to a lesser extent France," Trump said.