US-led coalition: Daesh has lost 95% of its ‘caliphate’

Daesh has lost 95 percent of the cross-border “caliphate” it declared three years ago in Iraq and Syria, the US-led coalition fighting it has said. “Since our coalition was formed in 2014, ISIS (Daesh) has lost 95 percent of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria,” Washington’s envoy to the coalition, Brett McGurk, … Continue reading US-led coalition: Daesh has lost 95% of its ‘caliphate’