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|author=The New York Times editorial board
|source=The New York Times
|date=December 19, 2018
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/opinion/editorials/trump-syria-withdrawal.html
|quote=Mr. Trump’s assertion that the Islamic State is defeated is absurd. “We have won against ISIS,” he boasted in a video. The ability of the terrorists to strike has been significantly degraded and much of the territory they claimed for their so-called caliphate has been liberated. But the group still retains a pocket of land on the Syria-Iraq border and has roughly 20,000 to 30,000 fighters, according to military researchers. As Mr. Jeffrey said Monday, “The job is not yet done.”
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