• ISIS has lost almost 10 percent of its territory this year
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[quote] ISIS has lost almost 10 percent of its territory so far in 2015, yet another indication that the group, for all the terror it has sown in Syria and Iraq, is losing the war. Defense analysis group IHS Jane's 360 detailed the territorial loss in a report, which includes this map below estimating the change in ISIS's territory between January 1 and June 29 of this year. Green shows territory ISIS has taken in those months, and red shows land that it's lost: [B]Sources:[/B] [url]http://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9069705/isis-map-10-percent[/url] [url]http://www.janes.com/article/53239/islamic-state-territory-shrinks-by-9-4-in-first-six-months-of-2015#.VbeipB_weRs.twitter[/url] [/quote] Since this data, the northern city of Hasaka has also fallen into Kurdish YPG control. [video=youtube;fHaaKR1HaFk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHaaKR1HaFk[/video] Click to enlarge [img_thumb]https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/stf9B-fqeV0y9jOTm_Bx3L1imq8=/1600x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3919146/ISIS_map_jane_s_july.0.png[/img_thumb] The momentum has started folks. :saxout:
And watch as Turkey continues to attack the Kurds and everything falls back into daesh's hands.
ISIS has lost most the propaganda war as of late, why might you ask? It's a simple fact ISIS hasn't been winning as much as they want, no big battles or great success. Their last great battles were taking Palmyra and Ramadi, but now they're on the defensive in Palmyra,Ramadi,Fallujah, been kicked out of Hasaka, YPG and FSA are spreading their lines that are about 24-30 km away from Raqqa. They lost a KEY boarder crossing and now Turkey the jilted lover is turning on them(to a very little extent). In short ISIS is spread too thin and too far. Many of the opposing forces have started getting their shit together and are fighting back. They haven't made ANY significant gains that they can even publicize nor have they won any great battles to use as propaganda, but the Kurds,FSA,SAA, and the ISF and Iraqi Militias HAVE been winning battles and been making gains against ISIS.
Good news.
safe daesh's state won't be a state for too long
So much unpopulated desert areas.
Counting the numbers of cities taken is a good measure of the factions' failures qnd success. Seeing such big territorial changes in eight months is surprising, too; the rebels managed to expand considerably.
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;48395250]ISIS has lost most the propaganda war as of late, why might you ask? It's a simple fact ISIS hasn't been winning as much as they want, no big battles or great success. Their last great battles were taking Palmyra and Ramadi, but now they're on the defensive in Palmyra,Ramadi,Fallujah, been kicked out of Hasaka, YPG and FSA are spreading their lines that are about 24-30 km away from Raqqa. They lost a KEY boarder crossing and now Turkey the jilted lover is turning on them(to a very little extent). In short ISIS is spread too thin and too far. Many of the opposing forces have started getting their shit together and are fighting back. They haven't made ANY significant gains that they can even publicize nor have they won any great battles to use as propaganda, but the Kurds,FSA,SAA, and the ISF and Iraqi Militias HAVE been winning battles and been making gains against ISIS.[/QUOTE] Well their whole army was based off of looting, pillaging, and enslaving, but since they never conquered anything so their armies weren't getting much in the way of loot and morale dropped. That and some of their major 'hero' figures have been killed or forced into hiding due to airstrikes, which shows extreme vulnerability. As a single entity, ISIS is doomed to collapse in the next year, but unless the fundamental problems are addressed the insurgency will continue.
implying that area isn't lost, gained and traded through counter attacks like every week over there
Good. Kill em all.
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