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CIGI senior fellow David A. Welch was live on CTV's Your Morning with Anne-Marie Mediwake to discuss whether victory against ISIS is being claimed too soon:
"It's true that the United States and its coalition partners have basically reduced the footprint of ISIS in Syria to about 52 square kilometres at this point, so they're almost out of business as an organized territorial political entity," said Welch. "But that doesn't mean they're out of business as a terrorist force."
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