Posted on 01/06/2019 3:24:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Recent precision strikes and coordinated attacks targeting the Islamic State's media cells have diminished the group’s communications capabilities by nearly half in less than six months, according to the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Combined Joint Task Force–Operation Inherent Resolve announced Sunday that strikes conducted by Operation Roundup between Dec. 23 and 29 hit Islamic State fighters, media cells, and a general service building in Syria’s Middle Euphrates River Valley region. As a result, the coalition said the Islamic State's communications capabilities have been reduced by approximately 45 percent since September.
“The degradation of ISIS in both Iraq and Syria is directly reflected in the decline of their media operations,” Brig. Gen. David Doyle, the coalition's director of operations, said in a statement.
According to Doyle, the Islamic State “places an enormous emphasis on their ability to produce and distribute propaganda” that is used to attract followers. As a result, the strikes have limited ISIS’ capacity to produce more propaganda.
Doyle also said the coalition will continue to target other facets of the Islamic State, including finance, recruitment, and ideology.
“The coalition’s effort to defeat ISIS extends beyond the physical domain,” said Doyle. “We will continue to remove ISIS from the battlefield, to include targeting their virtual presence, until they can no longer pray upon the vulnerable.”
Although President Trump declared last month that ISIS had been “defeated” in Syria and that troops would be withdrawn from the region, the coalition announced Friday that 469 airstrikes — consisting of 1,001 engagements — were conducted in Syria between Dec. 16 and 29. Similarly, nine airstrikes consisting of 14 engagements were carried out in Iraq during that same span of time.
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I don’t recall hearing about us bombing the big alphabet media recently. Not that i’m complaining, bombs away!
Sorry. Not buying it.
Something America’s loudmouth general McChrystal was never able to achieve.
Did we attack CNN? MSNBC?
Good catch!
These two are bigger enemies to the United States and Western Civilization than some towel-wearing neckbeard posting a blog update!
We bombed the NY Times, Wash. Post, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC, Huffington Post, MoveOn.org and CAIR/ICNA?
Way to go U.S. military! You hit the main targets without ever having to leave American soil. MISSION NEARLY ACCOMPLISHED. Now let’s finish them off, both here and abroad.
this is propaganda
from the deep state
don’t believe it
The democrats have the other half, don’t worry.
The remnants of their HQ group have been driven to smaller and smaller places, and they are losing more of their specialists now like finance people and media people and such. They are reportedly down to their last few hundred.
The pocket that is left is only about 20 square miles of lightly populated farms and small villages. https://isis.liveuamap.com/en/2019/6-january-isis-militants-captured-by-sdf-1warren-christopher
They are under heavy pressure from an assault force of thousands with heavy artillery, armored vehicles and 30 or more airstrikes a day.
They may not hold through next week, but they should conservatively be cleared before the State of the Union address.
Many have filtered out as individuals or carloads to become underground guerrillas and terrorists - but no more holding territory or fielding heavy weapons.
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