Brett McGurk

During a Sunday appearance on MSNBC’s “Kasie DC,” network foreign affairs analyst Brett McGurk, the former U.S. special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State, weighed in on the U.S. military’s recent airstrikes in Baghdad to kill Iranian military

President Donald Trump said he gave Gen. Jim Mattis a “second chance” after he was fired by former President Barack Obama. “When President Obama ingloriously fired Jim Mattis, I gave him a second chance. Some thought I shouldn’t, I thought

Some factions from the Baghdad-sanctioned umbrella organization for mainly Tehran-allied Shiite militia groups known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are helping Iran expand its nefarious activities in Iraq, a top U.S. Department of State (DOS) official indicated this week.

The U.S. military will remain in Syria for the foreseeable future, even after the American-led coalition completely vanquishes the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) physical caliphate, a top Department of State (DOS) official told reporters Tuesday, refusing to provide a specific timeline for when American troops will leave the region.

The United States is carrying out a routine “review” of its operations in Syria, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) declared on Tuesday in response to the commander-in-chief’s remarks that American troops will soon pull out of the country.

The U.S. State Department is reportedly considering cutting the office of the envoy that coordinates the American-led international offensive against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria now that the jihadist group is teetering on the brink of defeat.

The State Department held a special press briefing Thursday with Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and spokeswoman Heather Nauert. The focus was the 2017 successes against the Islamic State (ISIS).

A group of Republican lawmakers, veterans, and experts are calling on President Donald Trump to intervene in Iraq to stop a State Department policy that is harming a U.S. ally and allowing Iranian influence to grow.

About 30 percent of the territory the American-led coalition has retaken from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been liberated under U.S. President Donald Trump’s watch, a senior State Department official tells reporters.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lost an estimated 70 percent of the territory it held in Iraq and Syria at the beginning of 2015, courtesy of the ongoing efforts by the U.S.-led coalition and its local allies, the U.S. special presidential envoy for the alliance against the terrorist group has revealed.

U.S. special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State Brett McGurk arrived in Ankara, Turkey, Friday to discuss the ongoing battle for Raqqa. Turkey, which recently called for McGurk’s firing, has increasingly engaged in attacks against the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ).

Turkey is doubling down on its animosity toward the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, promising it is ready to conduct military operations against the YPG if provoked and demanding the removal of a U.S. envoy for supporting the Kurds.

Syrian groups affiliated with al-Qaeda are capitalizing on the U.S.-led coalition as well as the Iran and Russian-backed Syrian regime’s nearly single-minded focus to annihilate the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the war-torn country.

Brett McGurk, President Obama’s special envoy on the Iran deal, admitted at a State Department press briefing on Friday that major concessions to Iran, characterized by critics as ransom for U.S. hostages, were signed on the same day, evidently in the same room.

The U.S.-led air campaign’s primary focus on the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the Middle East has helped a former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria gain strength, U.S. military officials and other analysts have acknowledged.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top commander of America’s military efforts against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria has predicted that the U.S.-backed Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are “on track” to recapture the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, considered to be the jihadist group’s largest remaining stronghold in the country, “by the end of the year.”

Nearly all the pieces have fallen into place for the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces to make a push to recapture Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) that has been described as the jihadist group’s last remaining stronghold in the country, declared a top Obama administration official.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that the recent wave of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suggest that the jihadist group is “on the run” in Iraq and Syria.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) core in Iraq and Syria is losing territory, fighters, leaders, and financial resources, while its Syrian rival Jabhat al-Nusra flourishes, becoming the “largest” al Qaeda affiliate “in history,” President Barack Obama’s special envoy for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS told lawmakers.

Warning that such a military operation will be by nature “very complicated,” U.S. Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State Brett McGurk assured reporters on Saturday that the plan to retake Mosul from ISIS is “already underway.”

Images from Iraq reveal that vandals have painted a Kurdish flag over a seventh-century BC Assyrian relief in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in war-torn Libya is “the greatest cause for concern,” President Obama’s envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition told lawmakers.

Turkish officials have arrested 33 alleged members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Istanbul and southern Adana province, including a Russian national. Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Russia have reached a historic low in the past six months.

According to a religious ruling, or fatwa, issued by Islamic State scholars, the harvesting of organs from live victims in order to save the lives of Muslims is licit, opening the question of whether ISIS is engaging in the trafficking of human body parts.

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