U.S. Central Command: IS ops about to go full out

Manama, Bahrain -- U.S. Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie said that about 500 U.S. military personnel in east Syria are expected to resume operations against Islamic State terrorists in the coming days.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself to smithereens last month to avoid having U.S. Special Forces do it for him, and the jihadi group has lost almost all of its territory in Syria. However, ISIS is still seen as a threat and must be destroyed like a rabid camel.

The Trump administration shocked U.S. allies last December by saying Washington was pulling out all its troops from Syria. But it subsequently said that it would keep a small force in the northeastern area and focus on preventing ISIS from making a violent comeback and attack the oilfields in the area.

“Now I’ve got about 500 U.S. personnel generally east of the Euphrates river east of Deir al Zor up to Hasaka, northeast all the way up into extreme northeast Syria,” McKenzie told reporters at the Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain.

“It is our intention to remain in that position working with our SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) partners to continue operations against ISIS down the Euphrates river valley where those targets present themselves,” he added.

While President Trump had previously announced that ISIS has been "a hundred percent" defeated, it seems that some of of their fighters had been hiding beneath rocks.

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