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Antony Blinken: “We have deprived Daesh of about 25 percent of the territory it once controlled in Syria and more than 50 percent of the…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2016
We have deprived Daesh of about 25 percent of the territory it once controlled in Syria and more than 50 percent of the territory it once controlled in Iraq.
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Antony Blinken
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Reporting significant territorial losses for Daesh in Syria and Iraq.

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