Now, more than a year into the campaigns rollback and destroy isis, it is impossible to assert that isis is losing or that we are winning. To be sure, sure, there has been some tactical progress in putting a recent rick capture of romani. This is a testament to our leaders, but serious challenges remain. Isis has lost some territory but has consolidated power in its core territories in both iraq and syria. It maintains control of key iraq cities and art military commanders estimate that this key terrain will not be retaken this year. The un reports that since isis invasion of iraq in 2014, nearly 20000 iraq civilians have been killed, nearly 3500 people, predominantly women and children are estimated to be isis slaves in iraq. The secretary division in iraq is no surprise that the training of Iraq Security forces has been slow and the building of support for sunni tribal forces is even slower. In syria, there is no plausible strategy to achieve the timeline that wont result in the trag