of that number. In fiscal year 2018, Mr. Trump set a cap of 45,000, but resettled only about half that number.

In fiscal year 2019, the president set a cap of 30,000. As of Thursday, with four days to go in the fiscal year, the government was only a couple dozen refugees shy of the cap.

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The battle against the Islamic State group is "far from over" and the jihadists remain unbroken and prepared for a resurgence despite the elimination of their physical base in Syria, a top US commander said Thursday.

"Reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment -- but the fight against ISIS and violent extremism is far from over and our mission remains the same," US Central Command head General Joseph Votel told Congress, using an alternative name for the movement.

"The ISIS population being evacuated from the remaining vestiges of the caliphate largely remains unrepentant, unbroken and radicalized. We will need to maintain a vigilant offensive against this now widely dispersed and disaggregated organization," he said.

Votel told the House Armed Services Committee the hundreds of foreign