The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expect a fierce battle with Islam...
DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces expect a fierce battle with Islamic State militants who are still holed up in the group’s last enclave in eastern Syria, Mustafa Bali, the head of the SDF media office, told Reuters on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the SDF had retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by Islamic State. Speaking to American troops on Thursday, Trump said: “We just took over, you know, you kept hearing it was 90 percent, 92 percent, the caliphate in Syria. Now it’s 100 percent we just took over, 100 percent caliphate.”
Some 40,000 people have crossed out of the jihadists’ diminishing territory in the last three months as the U.S.-backed SDF sought to drive it from the remaining territory.
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