{"id":23873,"date":"2019-02-06T21:16:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/06\/trump-predicts-isis-will-lose-last-of-its-land-as-early-as-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:57:51","slug":"trump-predicts-isis-will-lose-last-of-its-land-as-early-as-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/leadership\/2019\/02\/06\/trump-predicts-isis-will-lose-last-of-its-land-as-early-as-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump predicts ISIS will lose last of its land as early as next week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/02\/01\/trump-to-discuss-ending-americas-wars-overseas-in-state-of-the-union-address\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump<\/a> expects coalition forces to announce as early as next week that they have reclaimed all of the territory once held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/12\/20\/lawmakers-baffled-by-trumps-decision-to-pull-troops-out-of-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria<\/a>, a major milestone in the ongoing fight there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the past two years we have retaken 20,000 square miles of land; we have seen victory after victory after victory,\u201d he told representatives from the 79-member global coalition to defeat ISIS during their conference meeting in town on Wednesday. \u201cWe have retaken both Mosul and Raqqa. We\u2019ve eliminated more than 60 high-value ISIS leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTens of thousands of ISIS fighters are gone. They\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/02\/06\/pentagon-officials-syria-withdrawal-heightens-isis-risks\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_18324462157766.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Pentagon officials: Syria withdrawal heightens ISIS risks<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Pentagon official in charge of special operations says former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was not wrong to object to the U.S. withdrawal from Syria.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For weeks, administration and military officials have said that the extremist group has lost nearly all the land it once held, but it still has thousands of fighters entrenched in small areas of Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s new announcement came just hours after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/02\/06\/great-nations-do-not-fight-endless-wars-trump-touts-troop-drawdowns-in-state-of-the-union\/\" target=_blank>annual State of the Union address<\/a>, where he reiterated plans to draw down U.S. forces in the Middle East now that the battle against the ISIS is all but finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news also came a few hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/02\/06\/pentagon-officials-syria-withdrawal-heightens-isis-risks\/\" target=_blank>a top Pentagon planner<\/a> said he did not understand the strategic thinking behind the Syria withdrawal, and a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/02\/05\/centcom-chief-says-trump-did-not-consult-him-on-syria-withdrawal-declaration\/\" target=_blank>the head of U.S. Central Command<\/a> said he was not consulted on the military moves before they were announced by the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Trump boasted that only \u201cremnants\u201d of ISIS remain, but he also warned that those individuals could still cause chaos and danger to innocent lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re always going to have some people,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re around, they\u2019re sick, they\u2019re demented. But you can\u2019t do better than we have militarily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the day, senior administration officials said the White House strategy for the region is now to push the final clean-up effort of those malignant forces to regional military forces, with the United States taking a step back to Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They said the American air base near Al-Tanf will be among the last places that troops leave but would not give a timeline for that withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has said he plans to keep a sizeable contingent of American troops at al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, to both monitor ISIS fighting and potentially destabilizing activity by Iran. Iraqi officials have not publicly agreed to that plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/02\/06\/great-nations-do-not-fight-endless-wars-trump-touts-troop-drawdowns-in-state-of-the-union\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_19037079805865.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">\u2018Great nations do not fight endless wars\u2019 \u2014 Trump touts troop drawdowns in State of the Union<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Trump argued for drawing down the number of U.S. troops fighting overseas and boosting up those deployed along the southern U.S. border in his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress has expressed significant concern about the draw down plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before the State of the Union address, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/02\/04\/senate-warns-trump-on-afghanistan-syria-withdrawal\/\" target=_blank>the Senate passed a Middle East policy bill <\/a>urging Trump not to rapidly withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. 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