The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them........
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State's last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat.
Trump has sworn to pull US troops from Syria after ISIS' territorial defeat, raising questions over the fate of Washington's Kurdish allies and Turkish involvement in northeast Syria.
Though ISIS fighters still hold out in a pocket of central Syria's remote desert, and have gone underground as sleeper cells in Iraqi cities, able to launch new attacks, their territorial rule is, for now, almost over.
التعليقات (0)