Pentagon: U.S-Led Coalition Surrounded ‘Last Pocket’ of Islamic State Resistance
4 Oct 2018Washington, DC76
The U.S.-led coalition and its local allies, namely the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), are closing in on “the last group of remaining [Islamic State] fighters in Syria,†a spokesman for the alliance told Pentagon reporters on Tuesday.
His comments came on the same day that the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) warned that ISIS is regrouping to mount a “second resurgence†in Iraq and Syria.
Although the U.S.-led coalition and its local partners have decimated ISIS’s physical caliphate in the Middle East, the Trump administration has acknowledged that the jihadist group still controls pockets of territory mainly in Syria and remains a menace.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/10/04/pentagon-u-s-led-coalition-surrounded-last-pocket-islamic-state-resistance/
