Special Envoy to Counter ISIS to Testify Following Trip to Syria

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing TOMORROW at 10 a.m. entitled, “From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Beyond: The Evolving ISIL Threat.”

Chairman Royce on the hearing: “ISIS is far from defeated.  In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, ISIS’s brutality and violence continues to spread.  This important hearing will provide members an opportunity to press the administration’s top official for ISIS policy, following his recent visit to Syria, on the progress of the anti-ISIS coalition and the need for a broad, overarching strategy to defeat these terrorists.”

What:
Hearing: From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Beyond: The Evolving ISIL Threat

When:
10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 10

Where:
2172 Rayburn House Office Building

Witnesses:
The Honorable Brett McGurk
Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
U.S. Department of State

***See foreignaffairs.house.gov for updates.

***Coverage note:  All Foreign Affairs Committee proceedings are webcast live at foreignaffairs.house.gov/live-video-feed.

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