A Bunch Of Takeaways From The Latest US Inspector General Report On Anti-ISIS Ops -

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A Bunch Of Takeaways From The Latest US Inspector General Report On Anti-ISIS Ops - Tsarizm
by Seth Frantzman
August 8, 2019August 8, 20190152   

The new report is out.

“This is the 18th Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report on Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the overseas contingency operation to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The report covers the period April 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019, and summarizes the quarter’s key events and describes completed, ongoing, and planned Lead IG and partner agency oversight work related to OIR.”

It can be downloaded here.

Here are a bunch of quotes from it, most of them are direct quotes, several are paraphrasing usually indicated with [ and ]. I have divided them into themes, whereas in the report they are divided differently.

    CJTF-OIR said that ISIS in Iraq was able to establish a more stable command and control node and a logistics node for coordination of attacks, particularly after the arrival of ISIS fighters from Syria following the fall of the last ISIS stronghold in the MERV in March 2019
    ISIS also exploits the gaps between the security forces of Iraq’s central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a swath of territory claimed by both sides.

Syria

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