Jordan: A Conference for the US presidential envoy of the international coalition to fight ISIS.
The US special envoy of the International Alliance against ISIS Brett Mcgurk, revealed that the campaign on the organization is not only military but also diplomatic and economic as well. Mcgurk, who is visiting Amman on Sunday, Said at a news conference following a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, that the ISIS has 8 branches around the world, the most dangerous of them is located in Libya.
As part of the international campaign against terrorism, the US special envoy of the International Alliance against ISIS Brett Mcurg, revealed that the campaign on the organization is not only military but also diplomatic and economic as well, and continued, we agreed with social networking companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and others to confront the “ISIS” on the Internet 24 hours every day, and we are working to stop the millions of tweets, accounts which publishes the ideology of the organization.
He added that the international coalition has stepped up its raids on ISIS sites in the city of Raqqa in Syria, pointing out that the leaders of the organization, including a militant leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have taken from the city of Shaddadi in the Syrian Hasaka their base.
He also said the number of the insurgents in ISIS is more than 40 thousand fighters, and this exceeds the number of al-Qaeda fighters and others who were fighting in Afghanistan in the eighties and nineties of the last century.
Mcgurk also explained that the coalition forces are training Syrian opposition fighters who fight against ISIS.