ISIS will be wiped off map 'tonight', says DonaldTrump
WASHINGTON - A bullish US President Donald Trump predicted on Wednesday that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria would be wiped off the map within hours, as he unfurled printouts showing the militants' shrinking presence in Iraq and Syria.
In one map shown by Mr Trump to reporters in Washington and then again at a rally to workers at a military tank factory in Lima, Ohio, ISIS territory marked in red extends over large areas."There is no red. In fact, there's actually a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight," he said at the White House.
After sweeping across swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, the ISIS hardliners' cross-border caliphate has been whittled down by multiple offensives to the tiny embattled enclave in Baghouz, Syria.
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