It's nice to post good news about the fight against these shitheads.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1-11e5-a2a3-d4e9697917d1_story.html?tid=sm_tw
Hopefully this means that the support network for their cells in other countries will become more isolated and fail without funding.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1-11e5-a2a3-d4e9697917d1_story.html?tid=sm_tw
In the latest setbacks for the militants on Thursday, Syrian government troops entered the outskirts of the historic town of Palmyra after a weeks-old offensive aided by Russian and U.S. airstrikes helped Iraqi forces overrun a string of Islamic State villages in northern Iraq that had been threatening a U.S. base nearby.
These are just two of the many fronts in both countries where the militants are being squeezed, stretched and pushed back. Nowhere are they on the attack. They have not embarked on a successful offensive in nearly nine months. Their leaders are dying in U.S. strikes at the rate of one every three days, inhibiting their ability to launch attacks, according to U.S. military officials.
The Islamic State continues to defend when it is attacked and shows no sign that it is losing cohesion in its core territories but it is starting to become possible to foresee the group's ultimate defeat, said Knights, who thinks that could come by the end of next year.
They are starting to fall apart, he said. They're a small movement. If you bring them under pressure on half a dozen battlefields at the same time, they can't do it.
Hopefully this means that the support network for their cells in other countries will become more isolated and fail without funding.