美国有线新闻 CNN ISIS在叙利亚只剩最后一处据点（在线收听）

We're starting in the Middle East this Tuesday where the ISIS terrorist group is making what could be its last stand in Syria. ISIS, which stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, once controlled large parts of land in those two countries after sweeping to power in 2014. But after five years of air strikes by a U.S. led coalition of countries fighting on the ground by local forces and intervention by militaries around the world, ISIS now controls less than 1 percent of the territory it once had. And that sliver of land is in a village of eastern Syria.

A military group called the Syrian Democratic Forces with support from the United States is battling ISIS on the ground while continued air strikes rain down from the sky. The U.S. general overseeing the fighting against ISIS estimates that between 500 and 1,200 terrorists are in the village and that tens of thousands of them are still s?pread out across Syria and Iraq. So General Joseph Votel says a defeat at its last stronghold in Syria won't mean the end of the terrorist group, but that continued pressure on it will be necessary. With U.S. troops scheduled to leave Syria at the direction of President Donald Trump, General Votel says that America would continue to look for ways to support the fight against ISIS without the U.S. military on the ground in Syria.