Despite airstrikes by the United States and its allies, reports suggest that ISIS has continued to gain ground in Anbar province and has encircled Haditha, the province's last large town not yet under its control, according to CNN.
Provincial security force sources told CNN that Iraqi forces have abandoned a strategically important base in Anbar after heavy fighting with the militants.
About 80% of Anbar is under ISIS control, according to Sabah Al-Karhout, president of the Anbar Provincial Council.
Overall this is still pipsqueak stuff.
The group's presence has been bolstered by only as many as 10,000 fighters, dispatched from Syria and northern Iraq,
ISIS would be crushed if any major military power seriously went after it.
Bottom line: ISIS is no major threat to anyone outside a limited region of Iraq and Syria.
-RW
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