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ISIS Now Controls A Shocking Percentage Of Iraq And Syria -- Business Insider
This map from the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War is an up-to-date depiction of the operational area of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a jihadist group so intractable that it was expelled from Al Qaeda's global network in February of 2014.
The group took over Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, earlier this week. And now the extremist militants have captured parts of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, which is located just 95 miles from the capital of Baghdad. Hundreds of prisoners were freed from prisons in each city.
ISIS operates across a vast geographic area. Jalula, Iraq, the easternmost population center under ISIS's control, is over 360 miles from Raqqah, Syria, the group's westernmost zone of control. ISIS sprawls across the Iraqi-Syrian border. It's attacked inside of Iraqi Kurdistan, sits at the doorstep of Syria's Alawaite heartland, and has broad operational abilities inside Iraq's Sunni Triangle, and even its Shi'ite south. ISIS cuts across ethnic and sectarian regions, controlling major cities and desert wilderness.
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My Comment: Within this territory ISIS now has in it's possession .... military bases for it's fighters, airports to transport people and cargo, and banks to finance their army. Even Al Qaeda never had such an infrastructure and such assets under it's control.
Update: Here is a must read article from the Institute fro the study of War .... The ISIS Battle Plan.
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