Burke Chair reports on the intertwined conflicts in Iraq and Syria including the campaign by and against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh, and the Syrian Civil War ...

The map of ISIS territory from October 2017 shows that the group has lost all of its major urban strongholds and is now confined to the sparsely-inhabited border territories between Iraq and Syria.

ISIS remains largely defeated after losing key swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria between 2014 ... coalition in a gradual manner, with a road map toward that end still under discussion.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Islamic State has grabbed the world's attention by pushing through Iraq and war-torn Syria using barbaric tactics. Here's how they did it, and what's being done ...