The Battle of Raqqah has been raging for months, amongst ISIS forces surrounded together with cutting off, ruthlessly defending themselves together with making the US-backed SDF (basically Kurds) pay for every street, building, together with inch.
Now, amongst over 90% of the metropolis inwards SDF hands, the battle seems to live entering its lastly stages, but the ISIS forces seem to convey a plan. They look to live asset hundreds of civilian families hostage inwards the city's football game stadium, using them equally human shields.
They may ultimately merchandise them for rubber passage to ISIS controlled areas farther East.
One affair that isn't happening inwards the nation of war is ISIS beingness crushed. It is truthful that inwards recent days they convey lost a lot of territory, both inwards Syria, where the Syrian Army together with the SDF convey unopen inwards on their forces well-nigh the Euphrates River, together with inwards Iraq, where ane of their enclaves is nether assault. But ISIS proceed to possess out hard, together with when defeated many of them only melt into the local Sunni Arab population.
One affair that isn't happening inwards the nation of war is ISIS beingness crushed. It is truthful that inwards recent days they convey lost a lot of territory, both inwards Syria, where the Syrian Army together with the SDF convey unopen inwards on their forces well-nigh the Euphrates River, together with inwards Iraq, where ane of their enclaves is nether assault. But ISIS proceed to possess out hard, together with when defeated many of them only melt into the local Sunni Arab population.
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| ISIS, losing territory but edifice a legend. |
This seems highly unlikely, equally the grouping seems good equipped to switch from the relatively conventional nation of war it has been fighting, to terrorist together with guerrilla operations.
The entirely truthful agency to root out ISIS volition live to win over the Sunni Arabs of Eastern Syrian Arab Republic together with Northern Iraq. However, invading these areas, using Shiite Iraqi troops, US-backed Kurds, Iranians, together with Alawite controlled Syrians may entirely strengthen the bond betwixt the Sunni Arabs of these regions together with ISIS. Nobody, it seems, has a existent excogitation to halt this war.