NewsWeek: ISIS Will Not Survive To The End Of The Year

[RiffRaff]

The self-styled caliphate of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is unlikely to survive its fourth year not only because it is losing territory, but because it is going broke, according to new analysis.

The jihadi group has not only lost more than 60 percent of the territory it held straddling the Iraqi-Syrian border, but it has lost 80 percent of its revenue, according to London-based defense consultancy IHS Markit.

It says that the group controlled 90,800 square kilometers (35,000 square miles) of land as of January 2015, but two-and-a-half years later, the group now only holds 36,200 square kilometers (14,000 square miles), still about twice the size of New Jersey.

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[Green]

I mean what can guys driving around in Toyotas do against a hellfire missile?

 

[Obreid]

They have opened up shop in most of North Africa, Gaza, Philippines. Spreading into Kenya calling for sharia throughout the whole country. ISIS seems to have figured out how to take a guerrilla war from a regional/ national level to a global one retreating and abandoned one area to pop up again in two others.
Their international Brand is attracting fighters and followers from all over. I'm not saying they will prevail but it is going to be a long fight.

"Maybe" the Saudis do know something about Qatar and their support of them. We probably never know the truth there. We probably won't like the truth if it ever comes out either.