Anne W. Patterson: “We support ambitious reform benchmarks for international financial institution (IFI) assistance that reinforce the…”

We don't believe it is possible to have any sort of settlement there, either a political settlement or any military defeat of ISIL, without the departure of Assad.

Let me stress that that is our goal, to get Assad out.

To protect U.S. interests amidst this volatility, we have to recognize and cope with the challenges that states across the region face.

Certainly our European allies, our Gulf allies, and Turkey do see that. They are absolutely determined that he will not remain in power.