syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. reporter: the kurdish forces gave the u.s. information, helpful information in the kurds to the commander of the syrian democratic forces tweeted successful investor cooperation due to a joint intelligence work with the united states of america. these are the same kurdish allies turkey has recently attacked in the u.s. military has withdrawn from the region. over the past several years the state department has built an anti-isis coalition with dozens of countries with 80 partners. mike pompeo says, while there is still work left to do to ensure isis s enduring defeat, baghdadi s death follows the path of other isis leaders that have been removed from the battlefield and can no longer
director of committee k and spokesperson at the united states mission to the united nations and now the managing director at greater good associates, a communication consulting firm that specializes in political risk analysis. and to do that very well. let s start with the president left off, how important is it to protect the oil, the president hinted that someone else might want the oil and he may be able to cut a deal to share it. cutting off oil is essential. isis has made millions of dollars in the illicit sale of oil that they controlled throughout iraq and in syria. and also through looting of artifacts and other means of getting money as quickly as they could to finance essentially a military operation that was successful for a while until western allies in the united states came in and conquered it. arthel: who do think the president might be referring to saint someone might want the oil
you killed one of the creatures. the iranians downplaying all of this, not surprising. in a larger fight against the islamic state that us-led coalition had more than ten countries conducting airstrikes into ground operation and effort to fight isis. this is not symbolic when the military victory for all of the countries and u.s. allies in the region. baghdadi was a symbol when it comes to islamic extremism in the middle east. he gave the infamous speech in iraq in the summer of 2014 talking about isis plans to take over the middle east and the entire world lay in 2016 you heard audio released by baghdadi talking about isis around the world. it s important to note while the territorial isis in iraq and syria has been demolished, there s still isis sleeper cells like in afghanistan, egypt and algeria. while the president claims islamic state is 100% destroyed, that is not true. but we can confirm that the leader of islamic state
eric: reaction continues to print to confirm the death of al-baghdadi this morning. he also acknowledged the roles of the syrian kurds and other forces in the region including giving credit to the russians and supporting the raid in northwestern syria. trey is live with that part of the story. reporter: good afternoon many world leaders were waiting on president trump to make the formal announcement from washington this morning before reacting to the death of isis leader al abubakar alba al-baghdadi. he called an incredible achievement. they took to twitter to say it was a large blow saying this is not the final step in the fight against isis and we have heard from iranians the communication a minister saying this is not a big deal in the united states,
victory, we must not confuse the death of the evil man with a total defeat of isis, there are still potentially hundreds of isis prisoners and sympathizers who have escaped in recent weeks. back at the white house, gop senator lindsey graham says now is the time for bipartisan praise for an operation to get the killer. and want to complement the president for coming up with a model in syria that we probably should have done in iraq, this is a game changer for the killing of baghdadi, a moment where we should be proud of our american military and intelligence community. this is a moment where president trump s worst critic should say well done mr. president. lindsey graham at the white house and the president you may have heard him say this, there are other isis leaders in the sites of special operators in that part of the world, they too soon will be brought to justice. according to president trump. arthel: we did hear that. thank you.