Top US official: ISIS is shrinking but “end stage” is some way off
As US-backed forces tighten their grip on ISIS's Syrian capital Raqqa, and Iraqis celebrate the liberation of Mosul, the man tasked by both the Obama and Trump administrations to coordinate the anti-ISIS effort sees reason for optimism. In a wide-ranging interview with CNN this week, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS […]Laura Koran and Michelle Kosinski write for CNN:
As US-backed forces tighten their grip on ISIS's Syrian capital Raqqa, and Iraqis celebrate the liberation of Mosul, the man tasked by both the Obama and Trump administrations to coordinate the anti-ISIS effort sees reason for optimism.
In a wide-ranging interview with CNN this week, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS Brett McGurk hailed the coalition's progress against the terror group -- which spread through Iraq and Syria at a lightning pace three years ago.
"We've retaken about 70,000 square kilometers," he said. "Five million people, Iraqis and Syrians, who were living under ISIS, have now been freed. And really, most importantly, the migrant refugee flow that we used to see has now reversed."
