Last month, when Iraqi forces liberated the area around the city of Hawija, north of Tikrit, it wasn’t only ISIS fighters who ran. Most people who have fled from ISIS-controlled areas have done so because they were terrified of the invading Shia militias and Shia-dominated Iraqi government forces. But such bullish appraisals of the collapse of ISIS’s fighting spirit may be over-optimistic. ![]() A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga detaining ISIS militants, southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq, October 5, 2017įollowing the expulsion of the Islamic State, or ISIS, from Mosul in Iraq, and with the imminent fall of the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, reports have suggested that ISIS fighters are defecting or surrendering en masse.
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