Mattis Updates Media on Battle Against ISIS: ‘No Longer Carrying an Air of Strength’

‘Collaboration among many nations , intelligence service continue to complicate and blunt ISIS operation’

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MATTIS: "So what have we achieved? We have fought ISIS elements from southeast Asia to Africa. Collaboration among many nations, intelligence services continue to complicate and blunt ISIS operation, even as ISIS continues to pursue and conduct attacks against the United States and our allies through centralized directed plots but also through inspired attacks. From the Philippines to Europe and beyond, while ISIS remains dangerous, they are no longer carrying an air of strength. In Afghanistan, two weeks ago, President Ghani announced we had killed the leader of ISIS Khorasan plus approximately two thirds of their strength have been killed during very tough operations mostly in Nangarhar Province."

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