[VOA News] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
, visiting Baghdad Friday, said Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have made gains against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in Iraq, and he vowed to increase the pressure on terrorists.
In the coming weeks and months, Kerry said, "the coalition will work with Iraq to turn up the pressure even further."
Kerry flew to Baghdad from Bahrain, for his first visit to the Iraqi capital since 2014. He held meetings Friday with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Kurdistan regional government's prime minister, Nechrivan Barzani.