Unable to keep up the breakneck pace of its conquests over the summer, the groups focus has shifted from fighting to governance. Before they were seizing territory, forcing armies in Iraq and Syria to retreat, Torbjorn Soltvedt, of a political risk analyst with a UK-based firm told FT. Now they’re basically an occupying force trying to govern. It doesnt seem to be going well. Local fighters are frustrated — they feel they’re doing most of the work and the dying . . . foreign fighters who thought they were on an adventure are now exhausted, an opposition activist from Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province told FT. The same activist said ISIS had executed 100 foreign fighters attempting to desert in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. As early as October, reports began surfacing of discontent among ISIS militants, who were reportedly tied to tanks and forced to fight. The momentum may finally be shifting.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:03:42 +0000
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