Days before he resigned, US envoy Brett McGurk warned that ISIS will take years to defeat

Sunday, December 23, 2018

“Just days before submitting his resignation, U.S. special envoy Brett McGurk, who heads the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State, said in an exclusive interview that putting an end to ISIS will be a long-term, multiyear effort. ‘We’re on track now over the coming months to defeat what used to be the physical space that ISIS controlled,’ McGurk told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble. ‘That will not be the end of ISIS.'”