Kurdish forces announced the end of the "caliphate" of the Islamic State in Syria

The Syrian democratic forces (FSD), an armed alliance led by Kurds, announced today the territorial defeat of the self-proclaimed caliphate of the jihadist group Islamic State (EI) in Syria.

"The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare the total elimination of the alleged caliphate and the 100% territorial defeat of the Islamic State," an SDS spokesman, Mustefa Bali, said in a statement.

After months of fighting, the SDF managed to conquer the latest jihadist positions in Baghuz, a town in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.

The fighting was very violent against the last and irreducible fighters of the Islamic State, but the victorious SDF flag caught fire. Baghuzsaid the spokesman.

Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump told reporters that the last bastion of the terrorist group "Islamic State" in Syria "would fall tonight". However, this battle lasted longer than expected.

In front of journalists at the White House, Trump showed two Middle East maps to discuss his government's achievements in the fight against ISIS. With the plans printed on the same page on top of each other, the president explained that the territories marked in red were those where terrorists operated in 2016 and those where they operate now.

"All that is in red, that is ISIS, when I badumed the power, it was a disaster.Now down there is the same place but there is There is no red, only a small place that will fall tonight, "the president told reporters.

At the most influential moment, in 2014, the Islamic State managed to control in Iraq and Syria a territory equivalent to that of the United Kingdom.

The organization, led by Iraq Abu Bakr Al Bagdadi, who proclaimed the caliphate in July 2014 at the Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul, the big city of northern Iraq, salvaged by the Iraqi army in July 2017.

Donald Trump announced that the last stronghold of the Islamic State in Syria "will fall tonight"