ALJAZAM News December 18, 2015
Seeing the the blotches on the map slowly shrink, but as one of the briefers said today, isil still has a lot of fight left in it, and this is still going to be a hard battle. The main calculus is the pentagon continues to believe that the only way to defeat isil and make it stick is for local forces to beat them on the ground, and then hold and govern the area to prevent them coming back. All right. I want to get to Courtney Keeley now. Meetings are underway in new york involving diplomats from 17 nations, and they are discussing a political transition to the end of the war in syria. Courtney...