ISIS is losing its grip in Iraq and Syria, but here are 9 places where it's still a threat
Thomson Reuters
ISIS' territorial control in Iraq and Syria is eroding.
In Syria, the fall of its self-declared capital in Raqqa and its last military bastion in Deir ez-Zor have forced ISIS toward the Iraqi border.
In Iraq, the liberation of Mosul and Tal Afar have ISIS fighters retreating toward the Syrian border, where they are being hunted down in a final push by Iraqi forces.
On October 21, President Trump said "the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight."
This week, Vladimir Shamanov, a former military officer who leads the Defense Committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, said that by the end of this year ISIS "won't exist anymore as an organized military structure."
While ISIS is losing large swaths of its home turf, it still operates in a number of countries. Here are 9 places where the fight against ISIS is not slowing down.
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