Wait! ISIS will be reduced to squatters next week, declares Trump

The US President has stated that Islamic State (ISIS) will lose all territory within a week.

Trump has made the statement after State of the Union address.

The Islamic State (ISIS) will be “100 per cent” defeated in Iraq and Syria by next week, US President Donald Trump has claimed as he boasted his administration’s new approach for directly confronting the terror outfit’s “wicked” ideology.

Currently, ISIS holds only about 1 per cent of land in Iraq and Syria, the global coalition to counter ISIS announced late last year. However, the caliphate continues to hold territory in Afghanistan, Libya, the Sinai and West Africa.

He added that the United States military, its Coalition partners and the Syrian Democratic Forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by the ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

“It should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have 100 per cent of the caliphate. But I want to wait for the official word. I don’t want to say it too early,” Trump said on Wednesday in his address to the Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.

Senior diplomats from nearly 80 countries gathered at the State Department for a meeting of the growing anti-ISIS coalition. The president acknowledged this group will work together going orward to come as ISIS strategy evolves.

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Trump said the new approach developed by his administration, empowered US commanders in the field, enabled partners on the ground, and directly confronted ISIS’s “wicked” ideology.

“Over the past two years, the US and its partners have retaken more than 20,000 square miles of land,” he claimed.

“We have secured one battlefield. And we’ve had victory after victory after victory, and retaken both Mosul and Raqqa. We have eliminated more than 60 mile high-value ISIS leaders,” he said.

“More than a hundred other top ISIS officials have been eliminated, and tens of thousands of ISIS fighters are gone. They’re gone,” claimed Trump.

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