WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- TheUnited Stateswould continue fighting the Islamic State (IS) until the radical group is defeated, President Donald Trump said in his first State of the Union address Tuesday. "There is much more work to be done. We will continue our fight until ISIS is ...
ISIS, which stands for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, rapidly captured large territories in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate in 2014. The group controlled more than 34,000 square miles of territory from the Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad. The campaign to eradicate the Is...
In an apparently different set of notes from Trump's, they added that the U.S. forces in Iraq are there for "the enduring defeat of ISIS. That hasn't changed."
"We will remain vigilant against ISIS (IS) by aligning global counterterrorism efforts to fight ISIS until it is finally defeated wherever it operates," the president added. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced Saturday the defeat of the IS militant group in eastern Syria....
His extremist militant group once captured large swathes of land in western and northern Iraq as well as parts of neighboring Syria, but has been defeated in both Iraq and Syria by an international coalition. In 2016, the U.S. State of Department offered a reward of up to 25 million U....
"We will remain vigilant against ISIS (IS) by aligning global counterterrorism efforts to fight ISIS until it is finally defeated wherever it operates," the president added. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced Saturday the defeat of the IS militant group in eastern Syria....