An aerial view of the Old City in Mosul on July 10, the day Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the city had been recaptured from Islamic State after a nearly nine-month battle. Photo: AP Photo/Felipe Dana

How Islamic State’s Caliphate Crumbled

Maps tell the story of the terror group’s violent rise and fall in Syria and Iraq—and show where the homecoming of ISIS foreign recruits poses the next challenge.

Published Dec. 26, 2017
Sources:

Institute for the Study of War; Soufan Center, Global Strategy Network (foreign fighters)

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