WASHINGTON (AP) — In a campaign that spanned five years and two U.S. presidencies, unleashed more than 100,000 bombs and killed untold numbers of civilians, the U.S. military engineered the destruction of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed empire in Iraq and Syria.
1 / 4President Donald Trump shows a map of Syria and Iraq showing the presence of the Islamic State in 2017 and 2019, as he speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, for a trip to visit an Army tank plant in Lima, Ohio, and a fundraising event in Canton, Ohio. The Islamic State group is down, but it is not done.
As Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, architect of the plan for defeating IS in Iraq and Syria, put it in 2015, the majority of Sunnis in Iraq simply refused to fight for their government when IS swept across the Euphrates and took control of much of the country's north and west. The problem now is achieving the political goal of reconciling the rival internal groups in both countries.
Brett McGurk, the former special U.S. envoy to the counter-IS coalition, wrote on Twitter Wednesday that the Islamic State group is"near finished" in Syria"thanks to the campaign plan designed under Obama and carried forward under Trump." McGurk, who resigned in December after Trump abruptly declared that American forces would withdraw entirely, said the military success"requires follow-through.
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