Reuters: Islamic State faces major assaults on two fronts in Iraq, Syria
Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014.
In Syria, U.S.-backed militia with thousands of Arab and Kurdish fighters were reported to have captured villages near the strategically-important Turkish border after launching a major operation to cut off Islamic State's last access route to the outside world.
In Iraq, Prime Minister Haider Abadi ordered his troops to slow an advance at the gates of Falluja, Islamic State's closest redoubt to the capital Baghdad, to limit harm to civilians, two days after the army poured into rural areas on the city's outskirts.
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WNU editor: I would also add the Russian - Syrian offensive near Palmyra, and Kurdish advances north of Mosul .... to also be adding to the military pressure on the Islamic State. It is hard to fight a war on multiple fronts, and I am sure that with the anti-ISIS coalition having supremacy of the skies, any large movements of ISIS fighters will result in a quick air strike ... which adds even more pressure to ISIS war operations.
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