Target locked: Islamic State in Libya after Iraq losses
The Islamic State group has lost almost half of land it once controlled in Iraq, the Pentagon has said, as pro-government forces continued to power through territories on the ground. Militants within the Iraqi borders lost control of nearly half of terrain, despite earlier estimates suggesting that 40 percent had been recaptured by US-backed Iraqi forces. "The number right now in Iraq is about 45 percent of the territory they once held has been recovered," Pentagon spokesman