Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Has The Islamic State Been Militarily Defeated In Iraq And Syria?



Business Insider: ISIS has been militarily defeated in Iraq and Syria

* The leaders of Iraq and Iran both declared the terrorist group ISIS defeated militarily in Iraq and Syria.
* Iraqis and Syrians, with assistance from the US and other regional militias, took their countries back from the terror group that declared its sovereign territory in the summer of 2014.
* ISIS still has territory in countries around the world but has been brutally disrupted by a US-backed bombing campaign and advancing ground forces.

Iraqi Prime Minister Hadir Al-Abadi declared military victory over the Islamic State in Iraq on Tuesday, just hours after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that Iranian-backed forces had driven the terror group out of Syria.

ISIS's last Iraqi town of Rawa fell on Friday, and Abadi only awaits the clearing of a patch of desert along Iraq's border with Syria to declare final victory. Iran posted pictures of one its most famous military leaders in a Syrian border town, indicating Iranian-backed forces had driven the terror group out of the country.

Combine, the two statements from the two leaders amount to long-awaited news: ISIS's territory in Iraq and Syria is gone; the terror group has been defeated.

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WNU Editor: As a semi-functional government with territory and a somewhat functional military force ....yes .... ISIS has been militarily defeated in Iraq and Syria. As an ideology .... definitely not.

1 comment:

fred said...

Our position was to get Assad out of power and to support the Kurds. Both positions have now failed and Iran is all over the area