This blocks the ISIS escape route from Raqqa.
Collapse or strategic withrawal?
ISIS seems to have problems sustaining forces in the field, which is suspiciously like an interruption in their logistics.
My, what could have precipitated that?
In the 50s and 60s we used to learn about the “Fertile Crescent” or the area between the Tigris and Euphrates, as the cradle of civilization.
I wonder if they still teach that?
Main road out of the raqqa is south of the Euphrates, for the SDF to cut escape routes they would have to cross the Euphrates to the east and west of raqqa and hold a highway
Ping
ISIS fighters are getting on boats and heading to Europe.
Trump keeping another promise?
el-Falaise pocket? Wipe them out! I saw a youtube the other day of some of these animals slicing a boy’s head off.
Barry leaves, they start losing. What a coinky dink.
ISIS knows what to expect from the SDF (death).
Saw a report that some ISIS leaders/managers have started moving out from Raqqa. They can see the writing on the wall. They are going to need to start spreading some of their folks outside of Syria/Iraq, if they want to have some surviving capability after this Summer. I hear that Sweden gives a sweet welfare package for those fleeing war zones...
Lots of cannon fodder will be left behind to fight to the death in Raqqa. Sounds like ISIS may be pulling their forces in from more exposed rural positions, to concentrate their forces in the more defensible urban areas, where they will have a better kill ratio. That will speed up the operation for a while, at least until the urban assault begins.
I hope that the Kurds have the good sense to kill every Isis fighter young or old. Extinction is the best remedy.