"Over the past 18 months, the Islamic State [Daesh] has continued to lose territory at an increasing rate… As the Islamic State’s caliphate shrinks and it becomes increasingly clear that its governance project is failing, the group is re-prioritizing insurgency," Columb Strack, senior analyst at IHS, said as quoted in the firm's news release.
Strack noted that, as a result, there can be an increase in Daesh mass casualty attacks and sabotage of economic infrastructure across Iraq, Syria, and other territories, including Europe.
In June 2016, Iraq announced the liberation of Fallujah, one of the largest cities in the Anbar province, which had been controlled by Daesh since 2014.
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