{"id":294401,"date":"2017-02-12T03:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mattis-to-meet-counterparts-in-europe-visit-amid-new-afghan-isil-bids\/"},"modified":"2017-02-12T03:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:10:02","slug":"mattis-to-meet-counterparts-in-europe-visit-amid-new-afghan-isil-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mattis-to-meet-counterparts-in-europe-visit-amid-new-afghan-isil-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattis to meet counterparts in Europe visit amid new Afghan, ISIL bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#444444\">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.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#444444\">Mattis will head to Europe on Tuesday with stops in Brussels \u2013 where he plans to host a meeting of senior officials in the so-called anti-ISIL coalition and also meet with European defense chiefs \u2013 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, <em>The Washington Post<\/em> reported Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#444444\">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&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/12\/510156\/US-Defense-Secretary-James-Mattis-Afghanistan-ISIL-troop-deployment-NATO-Munich-Security-Conference\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 where he plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}