Iranian president declares end of Isis

Iranian president declares end of Isis
Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:52:17

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the end of Isis on Tuesday in an address broadcast live on state TV.

(reuters) -- The senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Qassem Soleimani, also declared the end of Isis in a message sent to the country´s supreme leader Tuesday which was published on Sepah News, the news site of the Guards.

Last week, Iran's media published pictures of Soleimani at Abu Kamal in eastern Syria, a town which Soleimani said Tuesday was the last territory retaken from Isis control in the region.

(Photo: atlanticsentinel)

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