What news from the Daesh front?

By: Florence Gaub Alert 22 Daesh.pdf

It has been two years since Daesh (a term now increasingly used in order not to confer governmental or religious legitimacy to the group commonly referred to as ISIL/ISIS) declared its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and the international campaign against it has lasted nearly as long.

But what progress has been made in the war against the organisation?

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