Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says U.S. strategy is to target Iran's “actual decision-makers” rather than the country's proxy forces in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on Iraq and Syria, at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Pompeo spoke on ABC’s “This Week” amid rising uncertainty about next steps in the U.S.-Iran crisis and the breadth of its ramifications. The U.S. acknowledged an attack Sunday by an al-Qaida affiliate on a Kenyan airfield used by American military forces. It was not immediately clear whether there were U.S. casualties.
Meantime, the U.S. coalition combating IS in Iraq and Syria announced that it has “paused” training of Iraqi security forces in order to focus on protecting coalition personnel.
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