The deputy commander of the counter-Islamic State coalition is ending his tour in Iraq with a message for the several thousand terrorists still holding out against Syrian and Iraqi forces.

“Surrender or die,” said British Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones, echoing a declaration made over the weekend by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. “That’s a pretty stark statement, but it is the truth,” said Jones in a briefing to Pentagon reporters from the coalition’s Baghdad headquarters.

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