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"IS Fundamentally No Weaker Than When Bombing Started"
American intelligence agencies have concluded that terror group Islamic State is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the US-led bombing campaign began against it a year ago.
While the military campaign has prevented Iraq's collapse and killed more than 10,000 extremist fighters, it's argued that it has now reached a strategic stalemate.
The US has already spent billions of dollars on the operation, but ISIL is said to remain a well-funded extremist army, capable of replenishing its ranks with foreign jihadis as quickly as the coalition can eliminate them.
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