[DAWN] Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria prepared on Friday for a push on the last remaining speck of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group's "caliphate" where diehard hard boyz and their families are holed up.
US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
predicted that the once-sprawling proto-state's official death could be proclaimed as early as next week but operations have been paused for days on the main front line.
Four years ago, IS controlled territory the size of Britannia and administered millions of people, but the US coalition fighting the group said 99.5 per cent of it has been clawed back in successive offensives.
Its deputy commander, Major General Christopher Ghika, described the size of the last IS pocket as "now less than one percent of the original caliphate."
The coalition has been training and providing air support to the Syrian Democratic Forces, which launched an offensive on the last pocket of Death Eater territory in September 2018.