James Jeffrey: “I think the Syrian people, when they marched in 2011, wanted the same thing, and they still want the same thing.”

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…

Well, first of all, we did not bring it. The Iraqis wanted it. And in the end, they have a constitutional democratic system.

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.