Islamic State fighters in Iraq
Daniel Trombly, USNI News: Analysis: Defeating ISIS Remains Daunting Task
It has been nearly three years since the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured Mosul and advanced rapidly through a number of major population centers in northern Iraq, triggering a major U.S.-led internationalization of the conflict between the jihadist group and the myriad opponents to its attempt to establish territorial supremacy in Iraq and Syria.
On the whole, while ISIS’s geographic extent and financial means have shrunk, seizing and securing population centers under its control remains a daunting military task fraught with humanitarian risks and political complications. While the Coalition-supported effort to isolate Mosul has advanced only haltingly, Iraqi forces are moving on Fallujah, launching another urban assault in a perennial hotbed of Sunni Arab insurgency. In northern Syria, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and militias affiliated with them under the aegis of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are targeting ISIS in the approaches to Raqqa city and the Manbij pocket, ISIS’s primary extant corridor to the Turkish border.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 7, 2016
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The Liberation of Iraq Began 25 Years Ago -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg
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How NATO really provoked Putin -- Lucian Kim, Reuters
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1 comment:
The biggest thing I got from the article:
After trumpeting the retaking of the city, ISIS managed to destroy Russian helicopters at the well-guarded T4 airbase, cut a key line of communication to Palmyra, and retake the Shaer gas field (possibly before sabotaging it in a calamitous scorched earth tactic).
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