Trump Declares Islamic State Will Be Eliminated on Wednesday
Donald Trump speaks to members of the media while holding a map of Syria on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 20, 2019.
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President Donald Trump said that the Islamic State militant group’s territory would be completely recaptured as of Wednesday night.
“The caliphate is gone as of tonight,” Trump said in a speech at a General Dynamics Corp. factory in Lima, Ohio. He held up a piece of paper with two maps of Syria and Iraq, one showing territory controlled by Islamic State before he took office and the other showing how much land the group had lost.