Trump says 'ISIS is defeated' — the Pentagon says not quite

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Trump says 'ISIS is defeated' — the Pentagon says not quite
Christopher Woody,Ryan Pickrell

    President Donald Trump said in an interview on Tuesday that ISIS had been defeated.

    He's made similar statements before, but military officials have been more circumspect.

    While ISIS has lost the territory it once controlled, the group remains a potent terror threat that can strike globally.

 President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday that ISIS, the terrorist group that swept over Iraq and Syria in 2014, has been defeated.

US military leaders have said the group has been rolled back and denied control of territory, but they've stopped short of pronouncements like Trump's and noted that coalition forces are still fighting them in their last strongholds.

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