The statement of the Pentagon about that part of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) in Syria is still not defeated, is a pretext in order to leave American troops in that country. On Wednesday, December 6, said the official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov, reports “Interfax”. “Word about the alleged undefeated ISIS in Syria — an artificial pretext and excuse by the Pentagon to the illegal abandonment of American troops in the Syrian Republic”, — said Konashenkov. He noted that the situation in Syria “managed to stabilize and now to completely destroy ISIS thanks to the Russian military operation began on September 30, 2015”. “I would like to remind the representative of the Pentagon, that the emergence, expansion in Iraq and the invasion of Syria by the international terrorist group ISIS happened de facto with the tacit non-interference of the Pentagon”, —
