(July 9, 2017 at 3:55 pm)Jesster Wrote: What does this mean for the rest of IS? Is this just a small victory here, or did it impact them on a greater scale?
Basically what it means is that their dreams of a "caliphate" are over. Tactically it means they are no longer obligated to concentrate for a hopeless defense of a smudge on a map and can go back to blowing up Shi'ites wherever they find them.