United States will continue fight against ISIS Militants in Syria: Trump

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The U.S President Donald Trump said that the United States would continue to fight against the ISIS (Islamic State militant) group in Syria. It is noteworthy that he previously insisted that it had already been defeated. He wrote on Twitter on Monday morning. Trump slammed The New York Times for correctly reporting that his administration had stepped back from his December announcement that U.S forces would immediately be withdrawn from Syria. He wrote, “No different from my original statements, we will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and doing all else that is prudent and necessary”!

The Failing New York Times has knowingly written a very inaccurate story on my intentions on Syria. No different from my original statements, we will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and doing all else that is prudent and necessary!…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2019

He tweeted on December 19 that, “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency”. The president also tweeted, “The troops are all coming back, and they’re coming back now. We have won against ISIS. We’ve beaten them, and we’ve beaten them badly”. Now, Trump and top administration officials are saying that the fight against the U.S-designated terrorist organization would continue in Syria.

We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2018

Trump said in his tweet, “We won’t be finally pulled out until ISIS is gone”. The president’s national security adviser, John Bolton also said that troops would remain in the Mediterranean nation until ISIS was defeated and protection for Washington’s Kurdish allies had been secured. Trump insisted in his Monday tweet that reporting the reversal was very inaccurate. Senator Lindsey Graham called the decision a huge Obama-like mistake in a Twitter post. He also explained in a follow-up tweet that ISIS had not been fully defeated. But some politicians have voiced support for Trump’s decision, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat.