US Defense Secretary James Mattis is to meet counterparts from numerous countries during an upcoming visit to Europe as Washington considers deploying thousands of more troops to Afghanistan and devise a new strategy to battle the Daesh (ISIL) terror network.
Mattis will head to Europe on Tuesday with stops in Brussels – where he plans to host a meeting of senior officials in the so-called anti-ISIL coalition and also meet with European defense chiefs – and Germany to take part in the Munich Security Conference, a global forum of hundreds of ministers, heads of state and academic figures centered on enhancing global security, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
The development comes as US President Donald Trump has tasked the Pentagon chief with drawing a new plan within weeks for countering the terrorist group engaged in a massive terror campaign in Syria and Iraq through widely-reported financial and logistical support by the very members of…