President Trump said the Islamic State’s caliphate is over. That was news to troops on the ground.
Civilians evacuated from the Islamic State's embattled holdout area of Baghouz wait Wednesday at a screening area run by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour. By Louisa Loveluck Louisa Loveluck Reporter in The Washington Post's Beirut bureau, focusing on Syria.
More than 5,000 miles away in Syria, however, members of the U.S.-backed ground forces said they were surprised. The “final decision” is yet to be made, said Adnan Afrin, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces . “ISIS is not simply laying down arms and surrendering. Instead they’re preparing to make a last stand,” Zana Amedi wrote on Twitter.
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