Yawn, they’ve been capturing “key” whatevers for over three years now. Wake me up when they can do anything of significance against Latakia.
You apparently haven’t been following the war closely on the map.
They now control the river from Aleppo to very near Baghdad. That is, they have pretty much taken control of the Sunni areas they want.
I posted months ago that once the desired areas in Iraq were taken, the direction would change toward Aleppo. That is precisely what has happened. Aleppo will be the capital.
the coalition actions, including that of the USA, are all about insuring the borders don’t encroach in Kurdish claimed territory or major important territory supporting Shia Iraq to the south.
At some point, Assad is going to be contained and perhaps ousted.
Iraq and Syria will never return to the status quo ante
After he is gone, the Gulf Arabs and Jordan and Egypt will negotiate with Turkey to resolve the kurd problem and then exterminate the radicals from ISIS. They will develop a new government in the ISIS territory.
It will take some time, but that is what is going to happen. For the most part, Obama is irrelevant and mistrusted as a naive pretender