President Donald Trump announces that IS is close to defeat

Category
War
Place
Middle East
Date
2019
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"16/02/2019: US President Donald Trump says the jihadist group is close to being defeated, after a battle for the final IS-held territory on the Syrian-Iraqi border lasted weeks." [BBC Timeline: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47269887]

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World Superpower (U.S.)
1991
2020
United States
Post Cold-War Terrorism
1991
2020
Wars