US President Barack Obama sits next to Gen. Lloyd Austin during a briefing at US Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, Sept. 17, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Larry Downing)
Centcom Chief Notes ‘Significant’ Progress in ISIL Fight -- US Department of Defense
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2014 – Three months after the United States began conducting airstrikes against terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East today described the progress made toward degrading and destroying the group as “significant.”
“I think we’re having a significant effect on the ISIL element,” Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, told an audience at the Atlantic Council. “The question is, how soon can we get the Iraqis to develop a capability to do what they need to do to sustain the effects and conditions that we’re going to create.”
Hundreds of U.S. military advisors have been in Iraq since June, advising and assisting Iraqi security forces in their effort to take back the estimated one-third of the country -- including Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul -- that ISIL terrorists now control.
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My Comment: President Obama is still unsure that we are winning against the Islamic State .... Obama on ISIS: "Too Early To Say Whether We Are Winning" (Real Clear World), but reports are starting to come in that the Islamic State military campaign is faltering .... Islamic State suffering setbacks in Syria and Iraq (AP)
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