The United States announced a victory over ISIS in Syria. Syria spokesperson at the UN called the words “bluff”
Last night, the spokeswoman for the White House, Sarah Sanders, said that the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic was completely liberated from the militants of the Islamic State group.
CNN Channel after the White House statement interviewed a reporter in Syria who said that the standoff and shooting had not yet stopped. Referring to the representative of the pro-American SDF forces fighting against terrorists, the journalist said that ISIL still retain hundreds of civilians as human shields and continue to shoot from the SDF.
In turn, the representative of Syria to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari, called the US statement on the victory over LIH “bluff”:
“All US statements about ISIS are unreliable” “This is a bluff. There is no “Islamic State”, let’s start with the name, it never was. It is not Islamic, and not a state. This is a bunch of terrorists from all over the world who have fallen into Syria across the border with neighboring states sponsored by international intelligence services, including the CIA and the British “
According to al-Jaafari, ISIS militants are still in the Rukban camp under US protection. “With LIH in Syria is not over yet,” – said al-Jaafari