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Current state of the fight against ISIS

The Kurds are carving up the area around Raqqa. The plan was for them to actually take the city, but Trump put that on hold.

Turkey still hasn't taken al-Bab. They started trying in November. They have made substantial progress lately, largely due to Assad doing them a favor and gaining fire control over the supply route. For reasons that are unclear to me, they've also elaborately arranged the front lines to look like an enormous phallus, possibly as a display of dominance.

East Mosul has been fully liberated, but is still being targeted by ISIS drone strikes.

The operation to take west Mosul has just begun. Iraqi forces have pushed up from the south and taken most of the little villages and countryside between the old front and the city. A long battle awaits them.

So basically the status quo, only with a possible delay to the Raqqa operation.

http://news.groopspeak.com/trump-said-hed-have-a-plan-to-defeat-isis-in-...