Trump Predicts ISIS Will Lose Last of its Land as Early as Next Week by Leo Shane III – Military Times
President Donald Trump expects coalition forces to announce as early as next week that they have reclaimed all of the territory once held by Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria, a major milestone in the ongoing fight there.
“Over the past two years we have retaken 20,000 square miles of land; we have seen victory after victory after victory,” he told representatives from the 79-member global coalition to defeat ISIS during their conference meeting in town on Wednesday. “We have retaken both Mosul and Raqqa. We’ve eliminated more than 60 high-value ISIS leaders.
“Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters are gone. They’re gone.”…