Washington (CNN) Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday that "we can't be fooled into thinking" a withdrawal of US troops from Syria would mean that ISIS wouldn't reconstitute again in the country. In Syria the issue is whether or not we're able to ensure that ISIS doesn't reconstitute," Cheney told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." Helping to work with the local forces to really help ensure the defeat of ISIS," she said of US troops in the country. But you cannot be -- we can't be fooled into thinking, you know, if we just withdraw the troops now, we come home, ISIS won't reconstitute." "The United States military, our coalition partners and the Syrian Democratic Forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Source: CNN February 10, 2019 15:15 UTC