Counter-ISIS Campaign to Intensify, Mattis Says
By Terri Moon Cronk
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WASHINGTON, May 9, 2017 — The U.S.-led coalition will accelerate its campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said today in a joint press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen.
“We will further accelerate this fight to free people from ISIS’ crushing occupation and [the] enemy’s terror threat to Europe and beyond,” Mattis said.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1177576/counter-isis-campaign-to-intensify-mattis-says/