James Jeffrey: “We will press for the withdrawal of all Iranian forces from the entirety Syria.”

It is a good example of how we can succeed by, with, and through the international community and local partners, and it is a good model for the future.

There's a fundamental difference that we do not make clear as a country, let alone an administration, between putting troops under treaty obligations to defend territory and people against somebody else and the troops that we had in…

A political solution is highly unlikely with a government acting the way the current Assad government acts.

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.