are from the west or the northern baghdad to squeeze the iraqi government there. and lathe, ith, if this happ it would deprive isis of the largest pop you arelation center and how much do they count on this ground game to advance the caliphate? well, it is imperative for rye isis to continue the caliphate for land. and the main premise of caliphate is to have control of people over a set land. without having the land, the philosophy of maintaining a caliphate, anded a vnsing it, whether in the eyes of the isis followers or others, it will be bleak. so they need to the maintain that territory. and what about the effect on isis funding? they will lose a lot of funding, is simply because they are collecting a lot of taxes from the so-called citizens