WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, addressing diplomats from some 70 countries at the State Department today, said he expected a formal announcement on the territorial defeat of the so-called Islamic State, IS or ISIS, possibly as early as next week.
“It should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have [liberated] 100% of the caliphate,” Trump told diplomats attending a ministerial meeting of the 79-member Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. “You can’t do better than we’ve done, militarily.”