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Pentagon official overseeing counter-IS effort forced out

by Robert Burns
| December 1, 2020 12:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The civilian official overseeing the Pentagon's campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in the Middle East was forced to resign in the latest jolt to Pentagon leadership in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.

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