Ashton Carter says he has ‘immense arrows’ pointing at Raqqa and Mosul but adds the campaign will also include ‘elimination operations’ against Isis commandersThe US defense chief has said that 2016 will be the year the American-led coalition assaults the Islamic State in its strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul,offering Barack Obama a final chance to deal the jihadist army a lasting defeat before his administration ends.
Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, or gave a speech on Wednesday unusually heralding the US campaign plan for the next year,saying that he had “immense arrows” pointing at the Syrian and Iraqi cities that constitute Isis’s “center of gravity”.
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Source: theguardian.com