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US Marines fire a mortar during training in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria, July 23, 2018.
"We've defeated ISIS," President Donald Trump told Reuters on Monday. "ISIS is essentially defeated."
Despite Trump's triumphant statement, ISIS still has as many as 30,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon.
As such, US Marines are still in Syria advising and providing fire support to SDF fighters, and sometimes reportedly at times even getting into direct fire fights (they're also in country to deter Russian and Iranian influence, which the US largely denies or neglects to mention).
The US Air Force released some pretty incredible photos last month of US Marines training for those missions.
Check them out below: