1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Comprehensive Strategy to Destroy ISIS Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, nearly 500,000 Syrians have been killed, including 50,000 children. (2) The ongoing civil war in Syria has been among the most disruptive and costly of this century, having displaced an estimated 4,900,000 refugees and an additional 6,300,000 internally displaced persons according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (3) In June 2014 the self-described caliphate of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) conquered territory in Syria and Iraq. (4) According to the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Task Force on Combatting Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel, nearly 300,000 people from over 100 countries have traveled to the conflict zone in Iraq and Syria since 2011 to join or attempt to join terrorist groups, including ISIS. (5) According to CNN, ISIS has committed 143 attacks in 29 countries outside of Iraq and Syria, killing 2,043 people since June 2014. (6) According to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, over 27,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since June 2014. (7) On March 17, 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry stated, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control . (8) On January 28, 2017, the President signed National Security Presidential Memo-3 to require the Secretary of Defense to submit to the President within 30 days a plan to defeat ISIS . 3. Strategy to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham and its affiliates (a) Strategy required Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall jointly develop and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a strategy to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and its affiliates. (b) Elements of the strategy The strategy required by