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The U.S. military estimates the Islamic State now controls just three percent of Iraq and only five percent of Syria after the fall of Raqqa, Syria to U.S.-backed fighters more than three years after the first American airstrikes against the terror group.
So now the fall of the so-called ISIS capital has raised a key question: what comes next?
President Donald Trump said Wednesday, “We are decimating ISIS in the Middle East.”
“They’ll go to parts of Africa, they’ll go to other places, when they get to those places –we’ll beat them,” said Trump.
“This is an inflection point, it’s not the end of the campaign,” warned Gen. General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We are not shifting our attention away from Iraq or Syria yet.”
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