U.S.-backed fighters in Syria declared victory over Islamic State, marking the apparent end of a years-long global campaign to break the extremist group's hold on territory in the region.
to take back captured Islamic State fighters currently in U.S. custody as the military prepares for a withdrawal.
But a full withdrawal is looking less certain despite the fall of ISIS. Trump recently told members of CongressDecember , which blindsided U.S. allies as well as many in Washington and prompted the resignation of then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. "We have won against ISIS. We have beaten them and we have beaten them badly," Trump said in a December video posted onWhite House has since saidIn the recent letter reiterating that presence, Trump said,"[We] seek to ensure that all of the gains made in Syria are not lost, that ISIS never returns."
The move appears to heeds warnings that the symbolic end of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's deathly project may not mean the threats posed by ISIS have ended.
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