State Department spokesperson Ned Price defended the U.S. record on combating ISIS, saying that no country has done more to defeat the terrorist group.
“The United States corralled, organized, and since then has led the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS,” Price said. “And not only have we led it, but we have led it effectively, with dozens of countries, some 70 countries from around the world, including some of our partners in South Asia who have joined these efforts.”
Price pointed to the fact that ISIS has been decimated since its peak in 2014 and 2015. “Daesh has been decimated,” he said. “We have wrested much of its territorial stronghold away from it. Its so-called caliphate is no more.”
Price also acknowledged the continued threat posed by ISIS and its affiliates, including ISIS-K in Afghanistan. “We’ve seen the lethality of ISIS-K,” he said. “No American needs reminding of the danger this group posed as our troops were withdrawing from Afghanistan in August of 2021.”
Price said that President Biden has made a solemn commitment to remain focused on ISIS-K and to take action against it if necessary. “The President has made clear that we will not tolerate any threat to our homeland or our interests,” he said.
Recently Zamir Kabulov, Putin’s representative, claimed that the U.S. supports Daesh-Khorasan, ISIS is a serious allegation that has been denied by the U.S. government. There is no evidence to support Kabulov’s claim, and, likely, he is simply trying to deflect attention from the Taliban’s support for ISIS-K.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price commented on Recently Zamir Kabulov, Putin’s representative statement, That “the U.S. has been leading the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS since 2014. The coalition has carried out thousands of airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, and has provided training and assistance to Iraqi and Syrian forces”.
Price said that the U.S. is committed to working with its partners to defeat ISIS and its affiliates. “We will continue to work with our partners worldwide to ensure that ISIS is never able to reconstitute itself,” he said.
