Three months into the US air war, the situation on the ground in ISIS territory in both Iraq and Syria is largely unchanged, with only a small amount of territory lost in the conflict.
ISIS has lost a handful of towns along the Kurdish frontier in Iraq, particularly those near Iranian territory. At the same time, they’ve taken more territory inside Anbar Province, further securing their stranglehold on Iraq’s largest province.
Iraqi officials are presenting the lack of any major new cities falling to ISIS in awhile as proof of progress in the conflict, though the initial ISIS move into Anbar came in January, and Mosul didn’t fall until the summer, so the ISIS offensive has been intermittent in its progress for awhile now.
Rather, the issue is that even though officials were already saying the US air war was going to take years, it doesn’t seem to be making any real noticeable progress in shrinking ISIS territory, and all of the big gains have been presented as things that are going to be solved all of a sudden at some future date.
where exactly have they made gains inside iraq since the air war begin. please illuminate
Glory — How sweet it is
The only resolution of this civil war that would bring permanent peace would be a three state solution, a Republic with the Sunni, Shia and Kurd tribes ruling over the land they now occupy.
Common horse sense and you would think that they would have agreed to this at the start, if for no other reason then self-preservation.
But then, the purpose of this world is not to bring out the good in it, but to reach the ultimate conclusion of what happens when everyone has an illusion that they deserve to be rich, so another day of glory here we come.
In my opinion and from what I’m seeing, the press hasn’t yet caught up to the fact the war against ISIS is having some success now, some misleading news reports aside. The ISIS advance across Iraq and Syria looks to have been largely stopped, and in some cases reversed. There are daily air strikes, the Kurdish and Iraqi armies and other combatants are having an impact, disrupted communications, disrupted logistics, mounting casualties, disrupted and declining sources of revenue for ISIS, some citizen unrest in ISIS-held areas, and some reports of declining morale among some Islamic fighters. This looks to be a long, complicated, maybe never-ending war against a powerful enemy, and there will be major setbacks ahead. But signals are the anti-ISIS forces are mounting a more effective opposition now.
Are they really bombing ISIS or just Syrian infrastructure in preparation for a new U.S. led military offensive against Assad?
Boston Pagriot –
just destroying syria.
cnn hack based in gaziantep, where us forces guard patriot missiles, & turn blind eyes to ISIS (more likeley turkish troops dressed as ISIS) crossing the border & pummeling kobane, which is virtually empty of people and razed to the ground.
all going according to plan.