The Shifting Strategies of ISIS
By Mona Alami
March 29, 2017
The battle for Mosul -- the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) bastion in Iraq -- is entering its sixth month with Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition controlling about three quarters of the city. While fighting is focused on capturing the symbolic Nuri mosque in the Old City, where the organization leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi declared his caliphate in 2014, the war on ISIS is still unfolding elsewhere in Iraq. The organization may revert to old strategies and create new ones in order to survive an increasingly adverse environment.
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