Report: The Islamic State Has Lost 60% Of Territory And 80% Of It's Revenue

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Bloomberg: Withered Islamic State ‘Caliphate’ Shorn of Funds, IHS Says

* New report also shows extent of IS revenue, territory losses
* Losses driving IS to intensify its campaign of terrorist acts

Iraqi forces pushed deep into the last remaining urban stronghold controlled by Islamic State in Iraq on Thursday, capturing the compound of a key mosque in Mosul’s Old City where the extremists’ leader three years ago had called on all Muslims to obey him.

Overrunning the site of the Al Nuri Mosque marks “the end of Da’esh’s false state,” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said on Twitter, using Islamic State’s Arabic acronym. “We will pursue every last Da’esh fighter in Iraq.”

Though Islamic State blew up the mosque on June 22, reclaiming the area is of both symbolic and strategic importance because it was there that Islamic State’s leader -- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -- made his first speech as self-proclaimed caliph in 2014. It leaves the group with some pockets of Mosul and areas in western and northeastern Iraq, including Hawija near Kirkuk.

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Update: IS has lost 60% of territory, 80% of revenue: analysts (AFP)

WNU Editor: The above map is detailed and current. And while it is clear that the Islamic State has lost a lot in the past year .... they still control quite a bit of territory.

Update #2: Daesh Death Throes: Experts Predict Moment Caliphate Will Be Totally Annihilated (Sputnik)