BAGHDAD (AP) — President Donald J. Trump has told Iraq’s prime minister that the U.S. is committed to the total defeat of the Islamic State militant group.
The White House says the president spoke with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday to congratulate him on recapturing the city of Mosul from IS fighters. The White House is calling the recovery of Iraq’s second largest city a “milestone.”
Mosul was captured by the militant group in June 2014 and had been under its control ever since. U.S.-backed coalition forces engaged in land and air operations in nine months of fighting that put all but a small sliver of the city back into the Iraqi central government’s control this week.
He’ll get ISIS to build a wall.
ISIS is like cockroaches. You can kill a bunch, but the rest scatter to new locations for a while before coming back, more powerful than ever, especially with Donnie being the best poster child ever for ISIS / Al Qaeda recruitment…
Maybe Donnie could get them to declare bankruptcy? That I could see him having bigly yuge expertise in…