Last Daesh stronghold in Syria to be liberated 'Tonight', Trump says

Last Daesh stronghold in Syria to be liberated
# 20 March 2019 21:20 (UTC +04:00)

US President Donald Trump, speaking about the success of the SDF operation to clear out the last stronghold of Daesh* militants in Syria, claimed that there was one last "small pocket" of militants, which would be cleared "tonight", ONA reports citing the US media.

To prove his point, the American president has presented two maps showing territories in the Middle East where the terrorists were present: one as of 2017 and one as of today.

"This is a map of everything in red, this was on election night in 2016. Everything red is ISIS [Daesh]. When I took it over it was a mess," Trump said demonstrating the map of the Islamic State-held territory. "Now, on the bottom, that's the exact same [map], there is no red. The fact is actually a tiny spot, which will be gone by tonight."

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THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED