Ahead of leaving for the Arab country as part of a Middle East tour, Carter said that he will be speaking to US military commanders in the region to „get their latest reading on the battlefield situation and also very importantly their thinking about ways that we can continue to accelerate the campaign to defeat ISIL.“…

Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Syria and Iraq.