White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that it’s “indisputable” that President Trump has done more to defeat Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) than President Obama did.

It's indisputable that President @realDonaldTrump has done more to isolate North Korea & defeat ISIS in 8 months than Obama did in 8 years — Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 9, 2017

Sanders also tweeted a statement from Vice President Pence in which he praised Trump for “achieving real results on the international stage.”

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“While critics engage in empty rhetoric and baseless attacks, under the President’s leadership, ISIS is on the run; North Korea is isolated like never before; and our NATO allies are doing more to pay for their fair share for our common defense,” Pence said.

Sanders’s tweets come after The New York Times reported Sunday that more than 1,000 ISIS fighters had surrendered in Iraq over the last week.



The Times reports that the mass surrenders came after the Iraqi military captured the city of Hawija from the ISIS fighters after just 15 days of fighting.

Defense Secretary James Mattis James Norman MattisBiden courts veterans amid fallout from Trump military controversies Trump says he wanted to take out Syria's Assad but Mattis opposed it Gary Cohn: 'I haven't made up my mind' on vote for president in November MORE said in May that new tactics approved by Trump in the fight against the Islamic State put the terrorist group on “their back foot.”

“[Trump] directed a tactical shift from shoving ISIS out of safe locations in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy in their strongholds so we can annihilate ISIS,” Mattis said at the time.



Trump claimed last month that his administration had made more progress in the fight against ISIS than Obama’s administration did because it has been “proactive and nasty.”

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