Posted on 04/11/2017 1:12:40 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held during 2014, an Iraqi military spokesman said Tuesday.
“Daesh controlled 40 percent of Iraqi land,” Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, spokesman of the Joint Operations Command that manages the campaign against ISIS, told reporters on Tuesday, AFP news agency reported.“As of March 31, they only held 6.8 percent of Iraqi territory.”
The jihadi group seized the northern city of Mosul as well as Tikrit, Fallujah and Ramadi in 2014. But a coalition of forces that included the Iraqi army, Shiite militiamen, Sunni tribesmen and backed by a U.S.-led coalition have managed to take back much of the country over the past three years.
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Excellent
How much was taken back after Trump came to office compared to before he came to office.
That’s still way too much! Meanwhile what about the Iranian forces in Iraq?
It’s a good question. I don’t know of any large scale Units.
I wonder if the “go slow and careful” approach might be killing more civilians - not less.
Don’t need any if the answer to the question is ZERO
Dingbat Obama is responsible for ISIS expansion in IRAQ.
Trump has plan to exterminate ISIS as an organization from Iraq.
Think of the millions of people that voted for DINGBAT Obama. We have millions of stupid voters. We have lots of ILLEGAL ALIEN voters.
I don’t know. There was a pause lately after the mistaken bombing that killed a lot of Iraqi civilians. My sense is that slow only works if they will come out and engage. I also don’t know if the Iraqis are using up-armored M9 bulldozers, which can really bring down the house on ISIS types.
And how many ISIS members that escaped Mosul ended up in that crowd of refugees that tries to infiltrate Europe and America?
What’s your count?
If I knew that I would have reported it to the authorities.
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