LYON (euronews) — US President Donald Trump said that he expected a formal announcement as early as next week that the territory held by the Islamic State group had been completely liberated.

Officials were told the news at a Washington meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. Trump said:

The United States military, our coalition partners and the Syrian Democratic Forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by ISIS in Syria and Iraq. It should be formally announced sometime, probably next week that we will have 100% of the caliphate,

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Their land is gone. It’s a big factor — their land is gone.