Ash Carter: “I believe that Prime Minister Abadi is committed to this vision for Iraq.”

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.