Pentagon: Daesh has lost nearly half territory in Iraq
Dushanbe, 18.05.2016. /NIAT “Khovar”/. Daesh has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
The Defense Department had previously estimated that Daesh fighters had lost control of about 40 per cent of the territory in Iraq and about 10 percent of the land in Syria.
Those tallies had gone up in recent weeks, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.
“The number right now in Iraq is about 45 percent of the territory they once held has been recovered”, — Cook said.
According to him, the number in Syria is anywhere between 16 to 20 per cent.
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