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US Envoys Visit Iraq on Trip to Drum Up Support in Fight Against ISIS

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WhiteHouse 100214 GenJohnAllen?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1412285176593Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(BAGHDAD, Iraq) — Gen. John Allen and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk are in Iraq this week as part of a five-country trip on which they will represent the United States and attempt to drum up support for Iraq and the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Allen was recently named Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. ISIL is another name for the group that also goes by ISIS or the Islamic State. He and McGurk arrived in Iraq on Thursday, where they are scheduled to meet with officials from the Iraq government and other regional leaders.

The two men will also travel to Belgium, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey on the trip, meeting with “a wide range of government officials, regional partners and multilateral institutions in support of international coalition efforts to degrade and defeat ISIL,” according to a release from the U.S. Department of State.

The trip to Turkey will come after Thursday’s vote in which the country is expected to approve military operations in Syria and Iraq in support of the coalition’s efforts to defeat ISIS.


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