James Jeffrey: “I agree with the CENTCOM assessment. ISIS is still there in the northeast and throughout Syria.”

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…

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…

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.

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