Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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First, it's more than five years since the Islamic State's fighters burst into the Iraqi

city of Mosul and took it over. The lightning strike romped to America to patch together

an international coalition to fight against the extremists in Syria and Iraq, working closely

with local partner forces on the ground.

We're also providing urgent assistance to Iraqi government and Kurdish forces so they

can more effectively wage the fight against ISIL.

Now President Donald Trump has declared victory against IS. The group's territory has shrunk

to almost nothing, and its members are penned in squalid camps and jails.

I've been president for almost two years and we've really stepped it up and we have won

against ISIS.

So Mr. Trump said at the weekend that he plans to withdraw American forces from part of Syria.

While abandoning some of those local partners led by ethnic Kurds, they now feel vulnerable

to hostility from Turkey.

We have been strong with ally and defeated ISIS on the ground together with the coalition

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