US PRESIDENT Donald Trump may have pulled troops out of Syria because of information intercepted by Turkish intelligence alleging that Washington had approved the arrest of dissident Saudi Arabian journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi.

The US Spectator magazine claimed today that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) obtained details of a phone call between senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

Unnamed sources told the article’s author that Mr Kushner had given the go-ahead for the arrest of Mr Khashoggi, who was then brutally dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.