ISIS has taken over one of the world’s richest oil geographic areas

World News Nilgun Salim
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There-grouping of the Islamic state, which is now torn somewhere between Iraq and Syria, must repel in the desert or in other clandestine areas, three years after conquering a territory of seven million people, writes a Romanian newspaper.

At the end of 2014, the notorious group, which first emerged in Iraq, conquered a third of the oil country.

Currently, ISIS has lost 90% of its territories, including the second largest city in the country, Mosul, where the organization proclaimed a “caliphate” on both sides of the Syrian-Iraq border.

In Syria, the Islamic State was forced to surrender over 60 percent of its self-proclaimed capital, Rakka (north), to the offensive Arab-Kurdish alliance backed by Washington.

In the context of control when it comes to half of Syria’s territory, it now controls only 15% of this area, claims geographer Fabrice Balanche, a specialist in Syrian issues at the University of Lyon (France), for AFP.

This is about a territory three times smaller than the one the al-Assad regime is currently controlling – that is, 50% of this war-ravaged country – and less than the territories controlled by the Kurdish forces (23%) added the expert.

In Iraq and in Syria, “the Israeli state governance project is compromised, but the Islamic State is not yet defeated,” says Ludovico Carlino, a Jihadist movement specialist from the IHS Country Risk Research Center.

Including the loss of Rakka – a symbol alongside the Mosul in front of the jihadists- will have “enormous implications for the Islamic state in terms of propaganda,” Carlino says, according to which the group will replicate in the Iraqi-Syrian desert.