Intelligence File: As pressure mounts on all sides, the ground beneath ISIS shrinks
The mobilization of the international community against Islamic State might have been slow and insufficient – but it is already bearing fruit.
A WOMAN raises a weapon and the Iraqi flag in celebration after Iraqi government troops and militias drove Islamic State insurgents out of the town of al-Alam on Tuesday, clearing a final hurdle for an assault on the city of Tikrit. The Arabic characterson the flag read, ‘God is the greatest.’(photo credit: REUTERS)ByYOSSI MELMAN
