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September 8, 2016       Share:    

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/07/losing-ground-fighter-morale-is-it-all-over-for-isis-syria-turkey?

As ISIS Loses Ground, It Sends Fighters to Europe

(Guardian-UK) Martin Chulov - ISIS once controlled a stretch from Syria's Aleppo hinterland to Mosul in northern Iraq. It regularly moved men between the two points, using Turkey as a supply line for fighters, money and food. But now, in Syria and Iraq, the self-styled caliphate is rapidly contracting. A Baghdad-based U.S. diplomat said, "Everywhere [ISIS] tried to make a stand in recent times, they have been hosed out. They know it's near the end." "Morale is desperate," one ISIS official tells the Guardian. "Even in Raqqa. But they are very smart. They have made plans for all of this. They are investing a lot in sending their people to Europe, and it won't be over soon."

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