ISIS ‘eliminated in Syria’: White House

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US President Donald Trump said that 'it's about time' that ISIS were finally defeated in the region. 9News

SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel told the Associated Press today that there were still ISIS fighters and women and children hiding in caves near Baghouz.Other SDF officials said the camp was full of corpses, and that some civilians and ISIS fighters were still handing themselves over.

Associated Press journalists in Baghouz said coalition fighters were still conducting mop-up operations in the village after seizing an encampment on Tuesday where the extremists had been holed up for months. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters aboard Air Force One that Mr Trump was briefed about the development by acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan.Mr Trump showed reporters a map of Iraq and Syria that indicated the terror group no longer controlled any territory in the region.He pointed to a swath of red signifying the group's previous territorial hold, and then to one without any red, saying, "here's ISIS right now".

Even after Baghouz's fall, ISIS maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells that threaten to continue its insurgency. If history is a guide, the reconquering of ISIS-held territory may prove a short-lived victory unless Iraq and Syria fix the problem that gave rise to the extremist movement in the first place: governments that pit one ethnic or sectarian group against another.

 

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He bombed an area of civilians killing hundreds of innocent mothers and children. Well done arsehole

might need some episodes of The Block to be done over there

Trump winning again

Great job POTUS !!!!

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