US Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Bret McGurk, Dec 11: “The military objective is the enduring defeat of ISIS. And if we’ve learned one thing over the years, enduring defeat of a group like this means you can’t just defeat their physical space and then leave...
2/“... you have to make sure the internal security forces are in place to ensure that those gains, security gains, are enduring. So the enduring defeat of ISIS means not just the physical defeat, but make sure that we are training local security forces...
3/“... So that will take some time. We also have other interests in Syria...We want to see a resolution to the Syrian civil war through the UN Security Council resolution process....
4/“... And we also want to see the removal of foreign forces from Syria, particularly the Iranian-commanded and proxy forces from Syria.”
