Ten square kilometers, according to the article.
The map below is already out of date, with Baghuz in the South and Mozan in the North (as well as much of al Safafinah), already having been captured.
Posted on 01/23/2019 11:06:57 AM PST by BeauBo
Nearly 5,000 people, including almost 500 Islamic State fighters, have since Monday left the jihadist group's last bastion in eastern Syria, where IS continues to lose ground, a Britain-based monitor said... Islamic State is now confined to just 10 square kilometres (four square miles) in Deir Ezzor.
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This was basically a negotiated withdrawal of the great bulk of the remaining ISIS garrison, with their families, but without their heavy weapons - a common practice in the region. I'd like to know to where they were bused/trucked. (Turkey? Idlib? back to their Syrian hometowns, with the foreigners left to die fighting?)
In any event, with this surrender, the small remaining territory, the small number of fighters left, and the more open terrain; they could be cleared before or shortly after the State of the Union Address.
Four square miles of good target practice!
They should bus ISIS out in to the desert. Then shoot the f’ers...
carpet drones
Don’t you dare call it a shole.
Anyone who embraced, or espouses the ISIS (Wahabbist) ideology, should be put down... period.
There was a time Humanity recognized the innate evil within itself, and refused to let it fester.... sadly these days, it is allowed to escape and fester to arise another day.
Here is one time when its OK to say what the Twitter mob says about people it doesn’t like: I hope someone tracks these evil scumbags down and kills them.
Four square kilometers does not equate to 4 square miles.
If my math is correct it’s an area 1.25 miles by 1.25 miles. If so, they’re screwed.
The Kurds (SDF) have been great about killing ISIS on the battlefield. Once ISIS surrenders or are captured though, the Kurds have no death penalty.
In Iraq, the Shi’ite Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, or Hash’d al Sahaabi) were notorious for executing captured ISIS with relish in many creative ways, and posting the videos on the Internet. Iraqis are still chasing down and killing former ISIS who are operating as guerrillas, law enforcement and Intelligence Services continue to search for War criminals who have tried to re-integrate, and death squads secretly pursue some who are not legally chargeable, for personal or tribal revenge.
Soon the Syrian Kurdish coalition SDF will be administering rather than engaging in combat, and we will probably see a similar dynamic there, as ISIS reforms into small guerrilla/terrorist cells rather than occupying territory. They have already started with a few IEDs and suicide bombers in Kurdish areas.
Kurdish internal security forces are some of the very best in the region, but they will be more challenged in the predominately Arab areas, which were the heartland of ISIS support and recruitment, whose tribes enthusiastically supported ISIS.
Ten square kilometers, according to the article.
The map below is already out of date, with Baghuz in the South and Mozan in the North (as well as much of al Safafinah), already having been captured.
“This was basically a negotiated withdrawal of the great bulk of the remaining ISIS garrison, with their families, but without their heavy weapons - a common practice in the region.”
We suffer another -defeat- by following their common practice in the region. There should have been a ring of iron, and after a firepower defeat, herding them into outdoor pens like Germans at the end of WWII to sort through and find the war criminals.
Our method lets them return to Europe to shoot up theaters, drive on the sidewalks, etc.
They might have surrendered into custody, it is not clear.
Often in the past they have been allowed safe passage with their families, to save lives among the assault forces. Now it is harder for them to find a place to go.
So I wonder.
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