The president told reporters Monday that an unnamed 'top general' lamented the state of U.S. military supplies when he took office.
A Democratic member of Congress and Iraq War veteran has dismissed President Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. military had run out of ammunition when he took office.
A significant portion of Trump's press conference was dedicated to his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria around the border with Turkey. The area is currently held by Kurdish forces, who liberated the east of the country from ISIS with U.S. and coalition support.a strong Kurdish authority on his border. Turkey has been fighting an insurgency waged by its minority Kurdish population for decades, and considers the Kurdish forces in Syria an existential threat.
"I, we, all together, you—we defeated and took over 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate," he added. He did not mention that the vast majority of fighting was conducted by Kurdish-led forces, backed by U.S. and allied airstrikes, special forces and intelligence.in the fight against the extremist group.
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