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    Default Is ISIS Really 'On the Run,' as Kerry Says?

    Is ISIS Really 'On the Run,' as Kerry Says?

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    Default The ‘Biggest Strategic Concern’ About Mosul? Putting it Back Together After ISIS Lose

    The ‘Biggest Strategic Concern’ About Mosul? Putting it Back Together After ISIS Loses.

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    Default As ISIS Loosens Grip, U.S. and Iraq Prepare for Grinding Insurgency

    As ISIS Loosens Grip, U.S. and Iraq Prepare for Grinding Insurgency

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    Default How a Secretive Branch of ISIS Built a Global Network of Killers

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    Default With ISIS on the Run, New Wars Could Erupt in Iraq

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    Default New Commander Will Increase Tempo of US Operations in Conclusive Stage of ISIS Fight

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    Default The ISIS War Has a New Commander and ISIS May Be the Least of His Worries

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    Default Former US Commanders Take Increasingly Dim View of War on ISIS

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    Default New Tricks Make ISIS a Sophisticated Opponent

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    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
    For the real historical background on #ISIS & its roots going back to 1999, see my 2014 report:

    —> “Profiling #IS"

    http://brook.gs/2bnDpLK
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    What's next for the Islamic State as its caliphate is collapsing? Best to look into Mao's theory of revolutionary people's war as argued by Naval War College, Monterey Prof Craig Whiteside. Here's a link.

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    Default Global Jihad

    Clints Watts in FPRI examines in a short article on 'Two-and-a-Half Years After ISIS’s Rise: Global Jihad Spreads And Morphs':http://www.fpri.org/2016/09/2-12-yea...preads-morphs/

    He is optmistic that US intellignce community will understand the global jihad better:
    Successfully anticipating jihad’s divergence will require tens or even hundreds of analysts equipped with advanced degrees, language skills, and field experience tapped into a blend of human and technical sources. Luckily, we have that! It’s called the U.S. intelligence community. Moving forward, Western intelligence services will be positioned to put together the global picture. Jihadis have gone local and academics and analysts should as well. To understand jihad’s local flavor moving forward, look to journalists (like here and here) and academics (here’s one) doing true field research, in-person interviews and reporting rather than those relying heavily on social media personas of dubious access and reliability.
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    Default IS activist "publishes" addresses of Belgian soldiers

    Apparently a French IS activist published the names and addresses of 4 Belgian soldiers on the Internet.

    I have only the Belgian and German news version:

    http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.de...hten/1.2779933

    http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/33982/Islam...r-van-IS.dhtml
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    Default ISIS and Mosul: Keeping Pandora’s Box Closed

    ISIS and Mosul: Keeping Pandora’s Box Closed

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    Default Profiles of Islamic State Leaders: a report

    In July 2016 the London-based, neo-conservative think-tank, the Henry Jackson Society, released a report Profiles of Islamic State Leaders by Kyle Orton, an analyst who often appears in the Syrian War threads.Today the report was publicised again and HJS states:
    The report provides detailed profiles and biographical details of the key figures within the caliphate’s government, both for the chief administrators internally, and for those organising attacks against the West. The command and control structure of the organisation is laid out in detail.
    Link to the seventy pg. report:http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-co...ers-report.pdf

    I have not read the report.
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    Default ISIS Turning Into a Guerrilla Army, Top General Warns

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    Default The Next US President Can Expect Weakened, But Still Lethal ISIS

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    Default ISIS: An Adaptive Hybrid Threat in Transition

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    Default With Mosul Under Siege, ISIS Leader Breaks Silence to Issue a Rallying Cry

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    Default DoD Walks Back Promise to Attack ISIS Capital ASAP

    DoD Walks Back Promise to Attack ISIS Capital ASAP

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