Especially compared to the people in their group who are still in Raqqa and are in
ISIS controlled territory, collecting information covertly, risking their lives to do so, and then disseminating that information to the group on the outside.
Not exact matches
Those high - profile attacks are important because even though neither
ISIS or the Taliban
control any urban
territory, they gain international media attention and put them in the spotlight.
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ISIS - K
controls virtually nothing other than a small segment of
territory.
When federal forces fled the
ISIS onslaught in 2014, Kurdish militias stepped in, gaining
control of significant new
territory, including the disputed city of Kirkuk.
Ostensibly, Syria is «unable» to sufficiently degrade or destroy
ISIS because, as we can clearly see,
ISIS controls a significant amount of
territory within Syria's borders that its national army has not been able to reclaim.
The power vacuum emerging from this rapid decline has heated up competition between the numerous parties in the conflict — regular forces of regional states and great powers, as well as various militias often acting as their proxies — to
control former
ISIS territories.
Also, I believe practical
control isn't the main criteria:
ISIS effectively
controls a lot of
territory, but few people consider it a state.
In 2014,
ISIS took
control of large swaths of
territory, including Fallujah, Hawija and Mosul.
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ISIS -
controlled territories, New York Hilton, 1335 Ave. of the Americas, Manhattan.
For example, the American Revolution was not held to invalidate private debts owed to British debtors (indeed, the U.S. Constitution was designed with constitutional protection for foreign creditors), but I am relatively confident that
ISIS does not allow creditors from Syria or Iraq to enforce private debt obligations in the
territory that it
controls.