Defeat of Islamic State's Caliphate Is Not Defeat of IS

U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet early Wednesday on the fight against the Islamic State terror group in Syria was definitive. "We have defeated ISIS in Syria," he wrote, using an acronym for the group, adding the defeat of the group was "my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency." "The United States has defeated the territorial caliphate," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement issued about an hour later....

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