Trump’s threat to destroy cultural sites caught administration officials off-guard and prompted an immediate outcry from legal scholars, national security experts and Democratic lawmakers.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. has sufficient forces at the Baghdad Embassy to defend it.
The situation escalated again in recent days.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at a Pentagon news conference to cheer the successful mission by U.S. special operations forces Saturday that ended with IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blowing himself up.