Yesterday, the General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, released a statement naming Syrian Democratic Forces and Iraqi Security Forces responsible for the liberation of the formerly ISIS held regions of Iraq and Syria. In the interest of keeping track, in the case that this information falls to distortion and misinformation, into obscurity, or unavailability, this post intends to document the authoritative information available on the matter. Feel free to add further information or start a related discussion.
The release and related:
Update:
In new press releases as of four days ago, it looks like Trump had already altered reports about these most recent victories over ISIS. Though I'm unable to clearly discern image details due to poor image resolution, that looks like the JCS seal in the heading, but the report doesn't appear to list "Joint Chiefs of Staff" anywhere, as if he just crossed it out or otherwise crossed out the name of whichever department produced the report. This isn't the first time Trump's delivered statements to the media where he has crossed out sections using a black permanent marker.
^(I don't know what all of this means and I won't speculate. Just reporting the available information.)
When a country as big as Brazil elects a bigot, nations like ours have only one choice- respect the bigot and do trade as normal with Brazil. But giving the bigot the respect his elected office deserves is a totally different thing from presenting the bigot as the chief guest for Republic Day.
Including examples from the past, if there are any, I think we should stop selling the position of Chief Guest in the name of foreign policy.
José and Hose-B
