However pleased Vladimir Putin may be with President Trump's decision to withdraw all American troops from Syria, nobody could be happier than ISIS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Al-Baghdadi had been having a very bad few days and no doubt needed some cheering up.
The the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had driven ISIS from Haijin, a town on the Euphrates River that a senior American official termed “one of the final strongholds of ISIS.”