The once vast ISIS ‘caliphate’ is now reduced to a pair of villages in Syria

[rangerrebew]

The once vast ISIS ‘caliphate’ is now reduced to a pair of villages in Syria

By Liz Sly
January 27 at 2:32 PM

BEIRUT —  A pair of dusty villages in the Syrian desert is all that remains of the vast expanse of territory the Islamic State once called its caliphate, and the complete territorial defeat of the militant group appears to be imminent, according to U.S. and Kurdish officials.

A few hundred of the most die-hard Islamic State fighters are making their last stand in the villages of Marashida and Baghuz Fawqani on the banks of the Euphrates River, a few miles from the Iraqi border in southeastern Syria. With the Syrian army on the other side of the river, a group that once controlled an area the size of Britain is pinned down by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in a dot of land measuring six square miles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-once-vast-isis-caliphate-is-now-reduced-to-a-pair-of-villages-in-syria/2019/01/25/39cbd85c-2015-11e9-a759-2b8541bbbe20_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e9850df45f74

[GtHawk]

So what's the problem, seems to me a few of these and they will be reduced to oblivion, and a fine lesson to any considering taking up the torch(sorry).


Sorry...

[dfwgator]

ISIS will just be replaced with the next gang of Islamic terrorists.

[Fishrrman]

dfw wrote:
"ISIS will just be replaced with the next gang of Islamic terrorists."

Of course.
A new crop of bad apples from a 1,400-year-old tree.

You understand.

One thing most folks still don't understand -- or refuse to accept -- is the reality that this threat will never end until that tree is finally cut down for good.