Ash Carter defends US strategy for defeating ISIS
WASHINGTON- Defense Secretary Ash Carter is defending the US strategy for defeating the Islamic State group.
He tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that US-backed local forces in Iraq and Syria are making substantive gains toward retaking Islamic State strongholds.
Carter is also advising against an American-led "foreign ground force" to battle the Islamic State. He says that would play into the hands of the extremists.
