James Jeffrey: “It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.”

I am very disappointed. The rest of the world is disappointed, and God bless you in an impossible job you have been given to justify that.

Russia presses for a premature withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces. Such an untimely U.S. military departure would enable ISIS to return, allow Iran to fill the vacuum, place Iraq's stability at risk, and increase the threats to…

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion.