ISIS under fresh assault in its last bastion in Iraq

Published October 26, 2017 11:01am ET



FINAL PUSH IN IRAQ: This morning Iraqi forces are on the move against the last remaining pockets of Islamic State control in the western part of the country near the Syrian border. In a statement from Baghdad, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said ISIS members will have “to choose between death and surrender,” in announcing the offensive operations in the region of al-Qaim and Rawa.

ISIS TRAPPED: In a news conference following a counter-terrorism summit attended by 75 nations, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford said ISIS is fighting in an ever-shrinking battlefield that has left it no way out, no way to win, no way to get reinforcements. “Foreign-fighter flows into Syria have nearly stopped. There was 40,000 just a few years ago. This flow has nearly stopped,” Dunford said. “Also, foreign fighters are unable to get out of Syria, and we believe we’ve cut their revenue down to the lowest level ever, and their outside sources of funding are now entirely severed.”

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