IS now controls less than seven percent of Iraq

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said Tuesday, reports AFP.
"Daesh controlled 40 percent of Iraqi land" in 2014, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for IS. "As of March 31 (this year), they only held 6.8 percent of Iraqi territory," said Rasool, the spokesman of the Joint Operations Command coordinating the anti-jihadist effort.
Various members of the forces, Iraqi and foreign, battling the jihadists have disagreed in the past on control of territory figures but IS has been losing ground steadily over close to two years.
The most brutal organisation in modern jihad shocked the world when it took over Mosul, Iraq's second city, in June 2014 and then swept across much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.

 

IS now controls less than seven percent of Iraq

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said Tuesday, reports AFP. Daesh controlled 40 percent of Iraqi land in 2014, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for IS. As of March 31 (this year), they only held 6.8 percent of Iraqi territory, said Rasool, the spokesman of the Joint Operations Command coordinating the anti-jihadist effort. Various members of the forces, Iraqi and foreign, battling the jihadists have disagreed in the past on control of territory figures but IS has been losing ground steadily over close to two years. The most brutal organisation in modern jihad shocked the world when it took over Mosul, Iraqs second city, in June 2014 and then swept across much of the countrys Sunni Arab heartland.