Beautiful News ...ISIS being hit Hard

[Blobfish]

ISIS is losing more territory in the Middle East
Pamela Engel
May 21, 2016, 3:00 PM

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/is...rritory-2016-5


Isis palmyraReuters via Handout\

A banner belonging to the Islamic court of the Islamic State is seen on the ground after forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad recaptured Palmyra city, in Homs

US officials announced this week that ISIS has lost more territory in Iraq and Syria as the international effort to take back land the terrorist group seized continues.

Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said during a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday that ISIS (also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh) has lost 45% of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and 30-35% of the populated areas it once held across its “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.

“This enemy has really suffered a string of defeats on the battlefield,” Warren said. “Nothing they have done in the past few months has really been effective.”

Losing territory goes against ISIS’ message of “remaining and expanding,” a platform that it has used to recruit thousands of foreign fighters to the Middle East. As ISIS loses ground, the flow of foreigners to its territory has slowed significantly and defections have increased.

ISIS has now realigned its strategy to focus on terror attacks rather than territory. The group has been carrying out attacks on the West — such as those in Brussels and Paris — as well as in places like Baghdad, where ISIS has claimed responsibility for a recent wave of suicide bombings.

“Because the [Iraqi Security Forces] are proving increasingly effective, ISIL wants to throw punches that land,” Warren said. “To do this, they appear to have chosen to revert to some of their terrorist roots.”

The bombings and other attacks allow ISIS to project an image of power even as the “caliphate,” the name ISIS uses for its self-declared Islamic state, is shrinking.
ISIS mapDepartment of Defence

But even as ISIS is on the defensive, the group isn’t necessarily losing.

Tim Arango explained in The New York Times:

The situation in Baghdad and the territorial fight against the Islamic State in other provinces are related.

The reflex of the Shiite leadership is to protect Baghdad — to answer the agonized voices of victims of terrorism — and that is likely to prompt calls for military and police units to be pulled from the front lines to secure the capital. In that way, the resurgent terrorist threat in Baghdad could begin stalling the improving military pushes outside the city — including efforts to finally direct an offensive toward retaking Mosul, the main city in the north.

GOD Bless the USA
and Thank you from an Aussie Bloke..

[Deleted]

So is it time for this now?



We did it guys? Terrorism is over?

[Prothynyas]

hey aussie , stop with the american flag already you still have no idea

[Cybran]

ISIS won't be stopped until Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are allowed to fund them.

[Deleted]

ISIS won't be stopped until Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are allowed to fund them.

s/until/as long as

[Blobfish]

ISIS won't be stopped until Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are allowed to fund them.

I agree.

The Mantra of your local Jihadi is what we can do for ISIS
or think they are involved with ISIS...

The Sooner ISIS are wiped off this planet the best..

Obama isnt caring much.
Donald Trump will get Personal with ISIS and kick their arse

[Zstr]

GOD Bless the USA
and Thank you from an Aussie Bloke..

Russia with Syrian army had done all job, and you score this to US... pathetic

[Cthulhu 2020]

Sometime in the future...

We destroy ISIS, celebrate for a few months, then another even more horrible terrorist organization rises out of chaos and destabilization the US caused by constant war in the region.

And the cycle continues.

[Deleted]

Russia with Syrian army had done all job, and you score this to US... pathetic

Just like WW2, you say?

[Gadion]

Donald Trump will get Personal with ISIS and kick their arse

I kind of disagree. I see the guy as somewhat arrogant and confrontational. He's more likely to cause a great many of neutral citizens to adopt their ideology by alienating innocent sub-groups all over the Earth. Let's face it, American media is all over the planet, and everyone takes their cues from what Americans do. If their head-honcho behaves aggressively to certain groups, he may cause quite the negative reaction.

[Deleted]

The Sooner ISIS are wiped off this planet the best

If you think sending soldiers to fight them is the answer, then feel free to pick up a gun and drag your own ass in front of the bullets.

Donald Trump will get Personal with ISIS and kick their arse

First of all, he seems more like an isolationist to me, so he'll just build a wall and not give a shit about the Middle East, which to, for example Europe, is just fine. At least it's better than having the US go fuck up Middle Eastern countries one by one.

Secondly, he's not going to kick anyone's "arse". His sons aren't going to go fight, and I'm fairly certain nobody he even personally knows is going to go fight, either. It's always easy to be all macho about how "we're" going to do this and that when you're in the safety of your own home. Unless you're out there, dodging the ISIS bullets yourself, then just shut the fuck up about sending soldiers anywhere.

Murder is what it is, sending people to die for no good reason, and inciting to murder is yelling about sending people to "kick their arse" on a forum.

[SodiumChloride]

Sometime in the future...

We destroy ISIS, celebrate for a few months, then another even more horrible terrorist organization rises out of chaos and destabilization the US caused by constant war in the region.

And the cycle continues.

Such is life. It isn't anyone's fault. It's just the way humans are.

[Blobfish]

Socialists ..lol
They Like ISIS

Its division..Socialists love Division

[Cybran]

s/until/as long as

while* they are allowed to fund them

[SodiumChloride]

Socialists ..lol
They Like ISIS

Its division..Socialists love Division

Oh come on, it isn't that bad a game.

[Justpassing]

Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day yeah!

[Blobfish]

God Bless the Warriors who have fought against the Islamic Tyranny

[Deleted]

Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day yeah!

Haha was thinking the same.
But seriously, I'm afraid that it has just begun. :|

[Cthulhu 2020]

Socialists ..lol
They Like ISIS

Its division..Socialists love Division

We bombed a lot of civilian homes in our war on Al-qaeda. Those who saw their friends and families die became ISIS.

If a foreign power bombed your neighbor, killed your family living across town, all who had nothing to do with the conflict, and your town was a war torn area where you feared for your life every day, I imagine you'd be pissed off beyond belief at the foreign power responsible.

But please, do keep believing that unchecked aggression is what will end fighting.

Fighting for peace, it's like fucking for virginity.

I hate ISIS just as much as anyone else, but at least I'm realistic about the futility of stopping terrorism with more bombing and fighting.

[SodiumChloride]

We bombed a lot of civilian homes in our war on Al-qaeda. Those who saw their friends and families die became ISIS.

If a foreign power bombed your neighbor, killed your family living across town, all who had nothing to do with the conflict, and your town was a war torn area where you feared for your life every day, I imagine you'd be pissed off beyond belief at the foreign power responsible.

But please, do keep believing that unchecked aggression is what will end fighting.

Fighting for peace, it's like fucking for virginity.

Some times I wonder if we can channel irrational "religious zeal" to more productive uses ...

It's obvious a good number of people don't do critical thinking very well - if it's not religion, it's new age mumbo-jumbo ... etc.

People seem to actively seek out indoctrination and "religious" membership - reason and logic be damned.

Might as well work with what we got.

PS:

But please, do keep believing that unchecked aggression is what will end fighting.

Well ... if you kill them all ... like EVERYONE ...