Islamic State faced final territorial defeat on Saturday as the U.S.-backed Syri...
DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria - Islamic State faced final territorial defeat on Saturday as the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said it was closing in on their last bastion near the Iraqi border, capping four years of efforts to roll back the group.
An array of enemies, both local and international, confronted IS after it declared a modern-day “caliphate” in 2014 across large swathes of territory it had seized in lightning offensives in Syria and neighboring Iraq. “We expect it to be over soon,” Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces told Reuters.
Washington has about 2,000 troops in Syria, mainly to support the SDF in fighting IS. Trump announced in December he would withdraw all of them, but the White House partially reversed itself last month, saying some 400 troops would stay.
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