For a major chunk of the past administration, Barack Obama struggled with trying to defeat the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

In less than one year after Donald Trump has taken office, the nation of Iraq has declared victory over the terrorist group.

According to The Washington Post, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced an end to the war against the Islamic State group, which once controlled and terrorized two thirds of the country.

“This victory was achieved . . . when Iraqis united to face a heinous enemy that didn’t want us to see this day,” Abadi said at a press conference Saturday.

“They wanted to return us back to the Dark Ages.”

TRENDING: Internet Explodes Over Melania Lunch That Would Have Left Michelle Freaking

The final victory was achieved when, according to The Post, the “rugged, sparsely populated desert region bordering Syria has been ‘cleansed’ of Islamic State fighters and that the porous border that had underpinned the self-declared caliphate that straddled both countries has been fully secured.”

The turning point of the fight for control of Iraq was the nine-month battle for the city of Mosul, which was won in July.

Mosul, an ancient city which was destroyed by both Islamic State rule and the nine-month campaign to recapture it, was the last major stronghold of the terrorist group in the country.

However, pockets of resistance still remained throughout the country. With Saturday’s announcement, it appeared those pockets had finally been eliminated.

The fight against the Islamic State group was declared over in Syria by Iran and Russia last month, although there are continued pockets of fighting there.

In a tweet, the U.S.-led global coalition congratulated the Iraqis on their triumph.

The Coalition congratulate the people of Iraq on their significant victory against #Daesh. We stand by them as they set the conditions for a secure and prosperous #futureiraq http://pic.twitter.com/pJlGImT1Yu

— The Global Coalition (@coalition) December 9, 2017

“The Coalition congratulate the people of Iraq on their significant victory against (the Islamic State group). We stand by them as they set the conditions for a secure and prosperous #futureiraq,”

RELATED: Trump Has a New Slogan for CNN That’s Absolutely Perfect

Less than one month ago, Defense Secretary James Mattis said that only 5 percent of the terror group’s infrastructure remained.

“Our nations’ dedication to defeating the terrorist enemy is evident in the progress we have made since our last gathering here … 95 percent of the territory once held by ISIS is now liberated, and our partners continue to secure more each day,” Mattis said.

““Mosul, Tal Afar and Hawijah have been liberated; efforts to liberate the final pockets of ISIS-held territory in Anbar province are progressing rapidly.”

What a difference a year — and a political will to defeat the terrorist group — makes. Sayonara, JV team!

Please like and share on Facebook and Twitter with your thoughts on this amazing news.

How do you think the Trump administration has handled the war on the Islamic State group? Scroll down to comment below!

Three weeks ago, in a partisan effort to dismiss what is now an admitted forgery, and what at the time was an obvious forgery, the left-wing Washington Post’s Philip Bump (already a proven liar) consulted former FBI agent Mark Songer, a forensics documents examiner, to examine a yearbook produced by one of Roy Moore’s accusers as evidence he assaulted her. The expert concluded that the “writing seems consistent with one writer.”

The context of when Bump published this piece is important. If you recall, the Washington Post was the news outlet that first broke the story of the Moore allegations, and it was during this time that outside fact-checking of the Post‘s reporting revealed serious lapses, all them pointing to a Moore accuser who manufactured a false narrative.

But in a Friday morning interview on ABC’s Good Morning America, Beverly Young Nelson admitted that she had forged a portion of what she still claims (with no credibility) is truly Moore’s signature. The following exchange is crucially important if you are to understand just how dishonest the Washington Post is:

“Beverly, he signed your yearbook,” ABC News reporter Tom Llamas says.

“He did sign it,” she replies.

“And you made some notes underneath.”

“Yes,” Nelson admits.

The “notes underneath” she references are the following:

12-22-77

Olde Hickory House

Now, this is why this is so important:

1) This forged portion was used to back up Nelson’s now discredited claim that Moore assaulted her as a 16-year-old.

2) This forged portion — and you are not going to believe this — is the specific part of the inscription the Washington Post’s handwriting expert examined.

Anyone with half a brain and even a dollop of intellectual honesty knew that this portion of the inscription did not match the rest. (Moore denies writing any of it.) I declaratively said so two weeks ago. But here is Bump’s former FBI agent reassuring the public:

“Looking at the yearbook entry,” [Songer] said, “it looks pretty spontaneously prepared” — that is, it doesn’t look like the writer stopped and restarted, as though someone were tentative in writing perhaps because they were trying to imitate another writer. “It looks very fluid. I don’t see any indications of unnatural writing.”

“The writing seems consistent with one writer,” he added, though he pointed out that ‘Old Hickory House’ and the second date appear to be different stylistically — though he’d need to see examples of Moore’s hand-printed writing to be able to determine whether it’s authentic.

This is not only another black eye for Bump, the Washington Post, and all of the mainstream media; it is yet another black eye for an FBI that is increasingly seen as a partisan mob of secret police working hand-in-hand with a corrupt media to overturn elections.

Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page here.

In these trying times, Jackie Mason is the Voice of Reason.

In this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, Jackie questions the effectiveness of sexual harassment training programs for Congressmen who should have learned how not to assault women when they were children… and also wonders why you and I have to pay for it.

“When you’re three years old, you learn how to behave with people,” Jackie explains. “You learn how to control yourself. Your mother follows you around and makes sure you know how to behave so that you don’t touch anybody when they didn’t ask for it, and you don’t tumble people over when they don’t know you, and you control your body and your behavior.”

“Now Congressmen who are 67 years old and 98 years old are being told they have to take training at this age to learn how to behave with women,” Jackie adds. “Do you think this training is gonna be of any help to them? If they’re 95 years old and they still don’t know how to behave, when are they gonna learn, after they pass away?”

Jackie also wonders about reports that Congressmen have used taxpayer funds to settle allegations of sexual harassment or assault.

“Who’s money are they using to defend themselves? My money and yours, they’re using taxpayer money!” Jackie exclaims. “Where the hell did it start that taxpayer money should be used for low-lifes to defend themselves, with our money? I’m asking you a question. Does this have any decency? Does this have any morality, any excuse to exist?”

But Jackie saves perhaps his most pointed criticism for talk show host Chelsea Handler, who earlier this week called White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “harlot” who wears “summer whore lipstick.”

“Chelsea Handler. Do you know who she is? Don’t feel bad if you don’t, almost nobody knows who she is,” Jackie says. “This broken-down yenta attacked Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You know why? Because all she knows is that Trump is a conservative and the press is so crazy about attacking any conservative for any reason that she picked her out.”

“Do you know what a harlot even means? It means somebody who’s a low-life. You know why? Because you’re talking about yourself,” Jackie adds. “Use that name for yourself, don’t attack an innocent, decent lady, whose only crime is that you’re not too crazy about her.”

Jackie says it all proves that celebrities “are just plain jerk-offs.”

“Come to think of it, from what’s going on now, jerk-off is a good word, because I mean that literally.”

Watch Jackie’s latest above.

Follow Daniel Nussbaum on Twitter: @dnzussbaum

There is a repeated pattern in President Donald Trump’s major policy decisions.

1. Trump floats a good idea — for example, declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel.
2. Debate ensues, with the experts telling us that it cannot be done, and the world telling us that it should not be done.
3. Trump makes the decision anyway, and suddenly all of the terrible things we were told to fear somehow fail to happen.
4. The world accepts Trump’s choice, adapts to it, and moves on — until the next crisis.

The day after Trump made his historic Jerusalem announcement, amidst predictions of violence and unrest, the New York Times observed: “Rallying Cry of Jerusalem May Have Lost Force in Arab World.”

Arab leaders criticized the decision, but in unexpectedly muted terms. There were some riots in the West Bank, as the Palestinian Authority declared “three days of rage.” But three days are not a new intifada, nor a regional war, and will soon be forgotten.

Similarly, earlier in the year, when President Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords, the world warned that the very existence of the planet was at stake, and that the United States risked being isolated.

Then, after he had done it, everyone pretended it had been obvious all along that the Paris agreement had achieved very little, and acknowledged that the only country that would have been obligated to bear any real cost had been the U.S.

Likewise on domestic issues, such as immigration. When Trump first issued his executive order on the “travel ban” in January, the nation’s airports were besieged by swarms of leftist protesters, and the “resistance” was born.

The Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, refused to enforce the order, and became an instant heroine. (One of her admirers, Michael Weissman, would go on to play a key role in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.)

And yet this week, when the Supreme Court upheld the “travel ban” — for the second time — by an overwhelming margin, there was barely a whimper of protest. The 90-day window for the ban had long since passed, giving the Department of Homeland Security time to undertake Trump’s “extreme vetting.”

The damage to our Constitution from the president actually exercising his authority and carrying out his duties to protect the nation never happened.

What President Donald Trump is showing us is that many of the fears we have built up around good and important changes that need to be made are simply illusory. They are fictions created by our enemies; they are doubts sowed by the radicals within who wish to see the American experiment fail. They are apparitions, like the Wizard of Oz, who becomes far less dreadful once an outsider like Dorothy dares to pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

In recent days, Trump has been likened to President Harry Truman, who defied the State Department when he recognized Israel in 1948. But perhaps a more apt comparison would be Truman’s predecessor, Frankin Delano Roosevelt.

FDR is remembered for the famous line from his First Inaugural Address in 1933, when he said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

But few quote the rest of the sentence, which is even more powerful (emphasis added): “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

Trump was elected to “convert retreat into advance,” to “make America great again.” (Note the parallel, too, to Roosevelt’s campaign song, “Happy Days Are Here Again.”) Like FDR, Trump appeals to our past victories to summon the courage to look past today’s fears. It is difficult to imagine any other candidate doing the same.

Whether his presidency is a success or a failure, Americans will see the world more clearly because of Trump.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the “most influential” people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.