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US War Secretary Chuck Hagel Resigns after Policy Clashes on Syria

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US President Barack Obama announced the departure of US War Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday, with the White House under fire over perceived fumbling in its response to the threat of so-called "Daesh" [ "ISIL"].

US War Secretary Chuck Hagel Resigns after Policy Clashes on Syria

Both Obama and Hagel presented the decision as mutually agreed, but administration officials privately suggested he had been pushed out.

Hagel, who has been in the job for less than two years, was chosen to oversee a shift to a peacetime military with smaller war budgets, but found the United States at war again.

Rapid advances by "Daesh" extremists in Syria and Iraq forced the War Secretary into managing a complex campaign, and Obama concluded Hagel was not the man for the task.

He joined Obama at the White House to confirm his departure.

"When I asked Chuck to serve as secretary of "defense" [war] we were entering a significant period of transition: the drawdown in Afghanistan, the need to prepare our forces for future missions and tough fiscal choices to keep our military strong and ready," Obama said.

"Last month [October], Chuck came to me to discuss the final quarter of my presidency and determined that, having guided the department through this transition, it was an appropriate time for him to complete his service," he added.

The White House did not say who might be Hagel's eventual replacement at the Pentagon.

As a senator, Hagel voted in favor of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, but later became a critic of the drawn-out conflict that ensued.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team