6/7/2023 0 Comments Isis defeated![]() On July 24, 2018, I hugged my mother goodbye before she left Chicago to return to Syria by way of Lebanon. But contrary to Trump’s declaration, the terrorist group has not been vanquished, and it is currently regrouping near my hometown, Suwayda, in southern Syria-an area it has long terrorized while the government of Bashar al-Assad stood by in silent complicity. The United States and Britain have meanwhile moved on to debate stripping the citizenship of their nationals who joined the Islamic State. In February, President Donald Trump celebrated the United States’ alleged victory claiming that the group had been “ 100 percent” defeated. ![]() ![]() The world has been celebrating the Islamic State’s defeat since the final battle of Baghouz on March 23.
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