But if there were, terror would be winning. In Iraq, as Bill Roggio and Patrick Megahan report, in Long War Journal:
After seizing control of the northern city of Mosul in the past 24 hours, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham has advanced southward and taken control of territory in the provinces of Salahaddin and Kirkuk. In Kirkuk province, ISIS fighters “overran the Hawijah, Zab, Riyadh and Abbasi areas west of the city of Kirkuk, and Rashad and Yankaja to its south,” Colonel Ahmed Taha told AFP.
And in Syria, as Ryan Lucas of the AP reports:
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