Revealed - how the threat of ISIS is spreading: Extremist group has DOUBLED the land it controls in just a few months despite more than 800 coalition airstrikes

[mystery-ak]

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Revealed - how the threat of ISIS is spreading: Extremist group has DOUBLED the land it controls in just a few months despite more than 800 coalition airstrikes
New map reveals ISIS has expanded its control in Syria since the summer
Believed a million more Syrians are now living under its extreme rule
ISIS now controls about a third of the country, destroyed by civil war
But US say strikes have worked to halt the group's march through Iraq
ISIS 'largely in a defensive posture' in Iraq, claimed Pentagon spokesman

By FLORA DRURY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:37 EST, 17 January 2015 | UPDATED: 13:16 EST, 17 January 2015
     

ISIS has almost doubled the land it controls in Syria since the US-led coalition began airstrikes against the extremist group in the summer, a new map has revealed.
The extremist group has continued to expand its 'caliphate', despite more than 800 airstrikes hitting targets in ISIS-controlled areas since last summer.
The map, created by the Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS), shows just how much land has fallen to ISIS - which now has a third of the country under its control.
Before the summer, the militants controlled just half that.


The map, created by the Coalition for a Democratic Syria, shows how much land ISIS have gained since August when the airstrikes bagen

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[aligncare]

Obama likes how his tee shot has improved during the time Islamic State advanced through territory leaving corpses and heads of children behind, and organizing international networks of dedicated religious fanatics bent on enslaving the west under sharia. Says his putting is coming along, too.

[Oceander]

It looks like ISIS may, in fact, have to be treated as an actual nation sooner rather than later if they end up taking control of the rest of Syria.  An attack on Israel wouldn't be long in coming after that.

[Fishrrman]

Oceander wrote above:
[[ It looks like ISIS may, in fact, have to be treated as an actual nation sooner rather than later if they end up taking control of the rest of Syria.  An attack on Israel wouldn't be long in coming after that. ]]

Good observation. Looks like this is going to happen, eventually.

But... isn't there something in the Bible -- "Revelations", maybe -- that predicts the destruction of Damascus?

[alicewonders]

"Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins."

Isaiah 17:1

[Fishrrman]

"Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins."
Isaiah 17:1

Thank you, Alice.
We may live to see this prophecy fulfilled.

[olde north church]

"FORE!"