Press Releases
2016
12/07/16 Readout of Special Presidential Envoy McGurk's Trip to Iraq and Turkey; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/28/16 Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/17/16 Statement by the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, Berlin, Germany, November 17, 2016; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/14/16 Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL in Germany; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/28/16 Readout of Special Presidential Envoy McGurk's Trip to France, Iraq, and Italy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/24/16 Under Secretary Richard Stengel to Travel to UAE; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/21/16 Joint Statement of the First Kuwait-U.S. Strategic Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/18/16 Deputy Secretary Blinken Travel to France; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/16/16 Statement by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Iraqi Announcement Regarding Mosul
10/16/16 Statement by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on the Liberation of Dabiq
10/15/16 Terrorist Attacks in Iraq; Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
10/11/16 Statement on International Forces in Upcoming Campaign to Liberate Mosul; Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/28/16 State Department Terrorist Designation of Anas El Abboubi; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/16 Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Travel to Turkey; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/22/16 Humanitarian Assistance for Libya Totals More Than $121 Million; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/22/16 Iraq Humanitarian Crisis Event at UNGA; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/22/16 Joint Communique on Libya; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/21/16 Global Counterterrorism Forum Ministerial; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/20/16 The United States Welcomes Cooperation With Sudan on Counterterrorism; Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
09/13/16 Deputy Secretary Blinken Travel to Iraq; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/31/16 State Department Terrorist Designation of Abdiqadir Mumin; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/30/16 Rewards for Justice - Reward Offer for Information on ISIL Terrorist Gulmurod Khalimov; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/10/16 Special Presidential Envoy McGurk Travels to Iraq and Morocco; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/03/16 State Department Terrorist Designations of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Mohamed Abrini; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/26/16 Washington Conference on Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/22/16 Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk Travel to United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/21/16 Joint Statement by Foreign and Defense Ministers of the Expanded Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL / Daesh; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/19/16 Ministerial Meeting of the Expanded Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/19/16 Under Secretary Richard Stengel To Host Counter-ISIL Coalition Communications Working Group; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/13/16 State Department Terrorist Designations of Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukaev and Ayrat Nasimovich Vakhitov; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/03/16 Terrorist Attacks in Baghdad; Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
06/29/16 Under Secretary Stengel To Travel to Aspen, Colorado; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/10/16 Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/23/16 Da'esh Attacks in Jabla and Tartus and Regime Offensive Actions in Syria; Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
05/19/16 Terrorist Designations of ISIL-Yemen, ISIL-Saudi Arabia, and ISIL-Libya; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/12/16 Special Presidential Envoy McGurk Travel to Belgium and Jordan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/04/16 Under Secretary Stengel To Travel to West Point, New York; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/27/16 Statement by the Small Group of the Global Coalition To Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/16 Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL in Kuwait; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/25/16 Under Secretary Stengel Travel to Kuwait and United Arab Emirates; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/13/16 Death of Mohammed Zahir al-Sherqat; Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
04/05/16 Terrorist Designation of Salah Abdeslam; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/04/16 U.S. and Jordan Expanding Communications Partnerships against Violent Extremism; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/04/16 United States Announces New Assistance to Clear Explosive Hazards in Ramadi; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/18/16 Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel To Travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/17/16 Atrocities Prevention Report
03/15/16 Special Presidential Envoy McGurk Travels to Iraq; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/02/16 Special Presidential Envoy McGurk Travels to Iraq and UAE; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/02/16 Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel To Travel to Cambridge, MA; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/25/16 Condemnation of the Baghdad Bomb Attacks; Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
02/22/16 Joint Statement of the United States and the Russian Federation, as Co-Chairs of the ISSG, on Cessation of Hostilities in Syria; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/22/16 U.S. Condemns ISIL Attacks in Damascus and Homs, Syria; Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
02/02/16 Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/01/16 Secretary Kerry's Meeting with Qatar, Italy and the United Nations; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/29/16 Secretary Kerry Travels to Rome and London; Department Spokesman John Kirby; Washington, DC
01/29/16 Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel Will Travel to Rome, Italy, and Berlin, Germany, from January 31 through February 5; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/14/16 Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of ISIL - Khorasan (ISIL-K); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/14/16 Under Secretary Stengel Travel to the United Kingdom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/11/16 Ambassador Shannon's Participation in a Meeting on Foreign Terrorist Fighters; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/11/16 U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq; Spokesperson John Kirby, Bureau of Public Affairs; Washington, DC
2015
The Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
12/14/15 Secretary Kerry's Meeting With Qatari Foreign Minister al-Attiyah; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/12/15 U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attack in Hasaka, Syria; Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
12/07/15 Special Presidential Envoy McGurk Travel to Iraq, UAE, Jordan, Germany and London; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/02/15 Secretary Kerry Travels to Paris, Rome and Moscow; Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
11/23/15 Readout of the Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/23/15 Secretary Kerry's Meeting With Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/21/15 Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken Travel to Iraq November 22-23; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/18/15 Rewards for Justice - Reward Offer for Information on ISIL Terrorist Abu-Muhammad al-Shimali; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/13/15 Secretary Kerry's Meeting With Turkish Foreign Minister Sinirlioglu; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/10/15 Secretary of State John Kerry to Deliver Remarks on U.S. Strategy in Syria; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/04/15 Statement by Members of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/30/15 Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL in Brussels, Belgium; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/23/15 Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel to Travel to the United Kingdom for Meeting of Counter-ISIL Coalition Strategic Communications Working Group; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/16/15 Special Presidential Envoy Allen Travel to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/06/15 Special Presidential Envoy Allen Travel to Iraq; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/02/15 Special Presidential Envoy Allen Travel to Amman, Jordan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/29/15 Designations of Foreign Terrorist Fighters; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/29/15 Rewards for Justice - Reward Offers for Information that Leads to Disruption of Financing of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/28/15 Statement by the Members of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL: The Coalition at One Year; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/25/15 Conflict Antiquities: Forging a Public/Private Response to Save Iraq and Syria's Endangered Cultural Heritage; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/25/15 State Department to Co-Host Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/15/15 Readout of Secretary Kerry's Call With Foreign Minister Lavrov; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/11/15 Special Presidential Envoy Allen Travel to United Kingdom and Denmark; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/24/15 UN Security Council Holds Inaugural Meeting on LGBT Issues; Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/16/15 Joint Statement on Libya by the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/13/15 U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq; Department Spokesperson John Kirby; Washington, DC
08/07/15 ISIL Kidnappings in Homs, Syria; Deputy Department Spokesperson Mark C. Toner; Washington, DC
08/06/15 Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
08/03/15 Joint Statement of the U.S.-GCC Foreign Ministers Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/28/15 Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Small Group in Quebec City; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/08/15 Launch of the Sawab Center; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
07/06/15 Under Secretary Rick Stengel Travels to the United Arab Emirates; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/10/15 Readout of Deputy Secretary Blinken's Meeting With Iraqi Parliament Speaker al-Jibouri; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
06/02/15 Special Presidential Envoy Allen Travel to Qatar, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Italy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/31/15 Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken Travel to France June 1-3; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/30/15 Special Presidential Envoy Allen Travel to Iraq and France; Washington, DC
05/29/15 Under Secretary Richard Stengel Travel to Paris; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/27/15 Secretary Kerry Travels to Abuja, Geneva, Madrid, and Paris; Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/14/15 Second Meeting of the Counter-ISIL Finance Group Issues Communique to Combat Kidnapping for Ransom; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/13/15 Counter-ISIL Finance Group Kidnapping for Ransom Communiqué
05/06/15 Readout of Deputy Secretary Blinken's Meeting With IKR President Barzani; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
05/05/15 Rewards for Justice - Reward Offers for Information on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Terrorists; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/27/15 U.S. Support for the United Nations Arria-formula Meeting on the Destruction, Smuggling, and Theft of Cultural Heritage; Acting Deputy Department Spokesperson Jeff Rathke, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/15/15 Deputy Secretary Blinken and Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi Brief the Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/08/15 Readout of the Counter-ISIL Coalition Small Group Meeting in Jordan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/06/15 Countering Radical Ideologies Through People-to-People Diplomacy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/06/15 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travels to Jordan; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
04/03/15 Recent Violence Against Civilians in Syria; Acting Department Spokesperson Marie Harf, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/25/15 Counter-ISIL Coalition Provides Air Support in Battle for Tikrit; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
03/20/15 Establishment of the Counter-ISIL Finance Group in Rome, Italy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
03/11/15 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to Italy, Vatican City, Turkey, Germany, and Belgium; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/24/15 New Zealand Defence Force Training Contribution to the Counter-ISIL Coalition; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/24/15 Recent Attacks on Civilians in Syria; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
02/17/15 Readout of Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski and Ambassador David Saperstein's Travel to Baghdad and Erbil, Iraq; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/09/15 Terrorist Designation of Denis Cuspert; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/08/15 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to Jordan, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
02/03/15 Secretary Kerry Hosts Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
01/18/15 Secretary Kerry Travel to London and Davos; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
2014
12/24/14 The United States Expresses Concern for Jordanian Pilot; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/24/14 U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attack in Iraq; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
12/11/14 Draft Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/03/14 Joint Statement Issued by Partners at the Counter-ISIL Coalition Ministerial Meeting; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
12/01/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to Belgium and Germany; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/26/14 Secretary Kerry travels to Belgium, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, December 1 - 5; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
11/22/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to Canada; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/19/14 U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq; Director Jeff Rathke, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Press Relations; Washington, DC
11/18/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to Turkey, Belgium, and Italy; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/13/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to France and the United Arab Emirates; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/05/14 State Department Meetings With Yezidi Leaders (Taken Question); Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
11/03/14 State Department Hosts Inaugural Plenary Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/31/14 U.S. Condemns ISIL Executions in Anbar Province; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/27/14 Joint Statement: Coalition Partners Communications Conference; Office of the Spokesperson; Kuwait City, Kuwait
10/23/14 Under Secretary Stengel's Travel to Kuwait To Lead Coalition Communications Conference; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/20/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to the United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Oman; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/17/14 Readout of the International Working Group Meeting on Sanctions Targeting ISIL, al-Nusrah Front, and the Assad Regime; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
10/14/14 U.S. Condemns ISIL Attacks in Iraq; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/09/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Meetings With Turkish Officials on Efforts to Counter ISIL; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki; Washington, DC
10/02/14 Special Presidential Envoy John Allen Travel to Iraq, Belgium, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/26/14 ISIL's Murder of Iraqi Human Rights Lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi; Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki, Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
09/25/14 G-7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on Joint Action to Fight the Terrorist Organisation ISIL/DAESH; Office of the Spokesperson; New York City, NY
09/24/14 Underscoring ISIL and Assad Regime Abuses, Secretary Kerry Meets With Syrian Women Human Rights Activists; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC