Bombshell BBC Report Confirms US Struck a Deal with ISIS in Syria
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The report comes amid a statement by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that the US is preparing for a long-term military commitment in Syria to fight ISIS.
by ZeroHedge.com
At a moment of widespread acknowledgment that the short-lived Islamic State (ISIS) is no longer a reality, and as ISIS is about to be defeated by the Syrian Army in its last urban holdout of Abu Kamal City in eastern Syria, the US is signaling an open-ended military presence in Syria. On Monday Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon that the US is preparing for a long-term military commitment in Syria to fight ISIS “as long as they want to fight.”
Mattis indicated that even should ISIS lose all of its territory there would still be a dangerous insurgency that could morph into an “ISIS...