U.S. envoy visits Kurdish-held northern Syria

By Tom Perry and Arshad Mohammed BEIRUT/ROME (Reuters) - A U.S. envoy has visited Kurdish-controlled northern Syria in what appeared to be the first declared trip to Syrian territory by an Obama administration official in three years. The U.S. envoy to the coalition against Islamic State, Brett McGurk, said his weekend trip aimed to review the fight against the jihadist group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq. The Syrian Kurds have established control over wide areas of northern Syria sinc