5: ISIS Responses

Question 1

Response 1:

Answer 1

Operation Inherent Resolve

Question 2

Operation Inherent Resolve:

Answer 2

2014 - US launched airstrikes against ISIS as a part of a multinational campaign against Islamic extremist groups

Question 3

Obama:

Answer 3

We aim to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS

Question 4

US airstrikes have killed:

Answer 4

6000 ISIS fighters since the campaign began in September 2014

Question 5

US Director for National Intelligence James Clapper:

Answer 5

There has been “substantial attrition” in ISIS ranks due to Operation Inherent Resolve

Question 6

Islamic territory is:

Answer 6

Shrinking, as they lost 16% in 2016 and 14% in 2015

Question 7

U.S airstrikes have also:

Answer 7

Killed 50 civilians since the start of the campaign.

Question 8

Overall:

Answer 8

IS is now become a conventional, stateless, terrorist organsation

Question 9

Al-Adani:

Answer 9

“The smallest action you do in the heartland (West) is better than what you would do”

Question 10

Response 2:

Answer 10

United Nations

Question 11

The UN adopted:

Answer 11

August 2014 - Adopted resolution 2170 that aims to weaken ISIS

Question 12

The resolution:

Answer 12

“deplores and condemns in the strongest of terms the terrorist acts of ISIL”