Secretary Mattis presented a classified plan to the White House to defeat ISIL, as requested by President Trump in an Executive Order earlier this year.
General Votel, Marines have arrived in Syria to establish an outpost near Raqqa to fire artillery in support United Stat...
What steps are you taking to counter the threat posed by Hezbollah?
Iran's continued and disturbing malign influence and actions over the last several weeks remain a key concern of mine.
To defeat ISIL, do you believe we need a more robust ground presence?
United States forces in Syria are authorized to operate to train, assist, and advise coalition partners to defeat ISIL.
This facility will be an operations base.
It is a significant concern.
I want to focus on Iran.
their conduct there has been destabilizing--the word you used was 'destabilizing'--and abnormal.
But when we complain about the Iranians--and all of us probably in this room would agree with you that they are the majo...