Australia's acting military chief expects Islamic State to be defeated in Syria within weeks.
Australia's military chiefs expect Islamic State to be defeated in Syria within days or weeks.
The extremist group has collapsed down to the south-eastern part of Syria and its fighters only hold about 700 square metres of land.
Acting Chief of the Defence Force David Johnston believes a defeat of the group's self-declared caliphate is imminent.
"The judgment that we are seeing is that within days or weeks that remaining small pocket of quite hardcore fighters in that area are likely to be defeated by the SDF forces on the ground," he told a Senate committee on Wednesday.
"So the land-based caliphate element of Daesh is likely to be defeated within the next few weeks."
