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BEIRUT/ERBIL (Reuters) - Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate was all but reduced on Friday to a pair of border towns at the Iraq-Syria frontier, where thousands of fighters were believed to be holding out after losing nearly all other territory in both countries.

A U.S.-led international coalition which has been bombing Islamic State and supporting ground allies on both sides of the frontier said the militant group now has a few thousand fighters left, mainly holed up at the border in Iraq’s al-Qaim and its sister town of Albu Kamal on the Syrian side.

“We do expect them now to try to flee, but we are cognisant of that and will do all we can to annihilate IS leaders,” spokesman U.S. Colonel Ryan Dillon said.

https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/i...31B7-OCATP

You know, for a while this 'caliphate' was a real thing, land wise. Good to see the enlightened world fought back against this new Jurassic Park.

Hopefully any remaining leadership is killed, and as many soldiers as possible. I don't them want them scattering about to other countries.

Its a shame the world had to wait so long. A whole lot of people and a whole lot of world heritage, culture, art, and history had to suffer for the wait.

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I'm not following. What's changed? For years all this group did was rape, pilage, and gain territory.

(11-03-2017 12:37 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: [ -> ]Hopefully any remaining leadership is killed, and as many soldiers as possible. I don't them want them scattering about to other countries.

I hope they don't do what OBlunder did when they had Isis all lined up pretty like ducks in a row and did...NOTHING! A whole bunch of desert and they were rolling to another town and we only watched. No wonder the previous administration were called the Oblunder administration, Bunglers work too.

(11-03-2017 01:07 PM)ark30inf Wrote: [ -> ]Its a shame the world had to wait so long. A whole lot of people and a whole lot of world heritage, culture, art, and history had to suffer for the wait.

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Yep