Mattis says U.S. is trying to keep Islamic State fighters from going home
Bloomberg News | Sunday, May 28, 2017, 6:39 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The fight against Islamic State has shifted to stopping potential terrorists to their home countries to wreak havoc, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday.
Mattis provided details of the tactical shift he announced at the Pentagon May 19.
“We have already shifted from attrition tactics where we shove them from one position to another in Iraq and Syria,” Mattis said on CBS's “Face the Nation. “Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa.”
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