Increasingly desperate Islamic State fighters in Iraq are in full retreat and showing other signs of giving up in the face of a relentless campaign by Iraqi forces, backed by coalition airpower, the top U.S. military land commander in Iraq said Thursday.
“The Iraqis are winning. To use a sports analogy they are 7 and 0,” said Maj. Gen. Robert White, the Combined Joint Forces Land Component commander.
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