Trump says 'ISIS is defeated' the Pentagon says not quite
Get the Full StoryREUTERS Youssef BoudlalPresident Donald Trump said in an interview on Tuesday that ISIS had been defeated.
He's made similar statements before, but military officials have been more circumspect.
While ISIS has lost the territory it once controlled, the group remains a potent terror threat that can strike globally.
President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday that ISIS, the terrorist group that swept over Iraq and Syria in 2014, has been defeated.
US military leaders have said the group has been rolled back and denied control of territory, but they've stopped short of pronouncements like Trump's and noted that coalition forces are still fighting them in their last strongholds.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: What the US needs to do to prevent a new ISIS in IraqSee Also:Saudi Arabia vows retaliation against US sanction 'threats' following Jamal Khashoggi's disappearanceJamal Khashoggi's disappearance is an 'embarrassing' 'crisis' for Trump and 'one of the roughest foreign-policy challenges' he's faced yet, experts sayTrump just met with a classic-rock legend and a missile-defense expert and it was the same guySEE ALSO: Jeff Sessions just named these 5 groups as the top transnational organized-crime threats to the US
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