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Territorial defeat of isis in syria and iraq, we still have much work to do to achieve an enduring defeat of isis. >> reporter: that work to do includes going after i.s. fighters who may have slipped out of that city, blended in with the civilians, looking to fight again, going after them and keeping an eye on sleeper cells around the world. back to you. eric: great victory for those on the side of what is right. thank you. arthel: eart robert mueller wg up the special investigation. we'll have more details for you, stick around as we come back after this break. - i always wanted to speak fren...

Parts of syria as well as iraq. now, isis grew out of the vacuum that was created by the syrian uprising that began in march of 2011, and it also thrived down the anger and frustration in iraq caused by the sectarian nature of the government there. so you have the problem in both of these countries of these sleeper cells which are very active not in the areas ruled by isis but very much throughout the country, and in fact, near one town we were staying, one day there were two suicide car bombings, killing 14 people, claimed by isis. so if opportunities aren't created, if reconstruction doesn't...

Syria. and, you know, land is one thing. their land has been shrinking. their grip on land has been shrinking, but thidaelg if you listen to the u.s. intel community, it's still there. >> yes. the ideology is still there. sleeper cells, we've seen them attacked in various places in syria and iraq the last few months. and we know that many of the isis fighters have managed to escape, blend back into the local population or go to remote parts of the deserts or the mountains and continue to operate. as a geographical entity, there's not much left to it. just about one square mile. but what we saw...

The active fighting stopped a while ago, these soldiers say. incoming or outgoing, okay, outgoing, he responds. he was, however, mistaken. so, the soldiers here have told us it's been quiet for the last at least week or so. but, just a moment the soldier was telling me that, there was an incoming round landing right over there. so, quiet, i guess in this instance is a relative term. this is the commander of the anti-isis forces at the front and warns against assuming the war is almost over. isis isn't finished, yet, he tells me. it's still in this area. it's still fighting. it still has sleepe...

Africa. the question is, how do you fight that? how does the world continue to keep a watch and try to dismantle these sleeper cells and small units? >> you know, let me be direct. i mean, i think the military aspect of the fight against isis is very crucial. now that the physical state is dismantled in iraq and syria, in fact, what we need is really nonmilitary means to hammer a deadly nail in the coffin of isis. what i really mean, you need to help devastate the societies in iraq and syria and other places, recover. reconcile, rebuild and my take on it is that president trump does not really...