It is vital to get the spate of detailed triumphs by US-sponsored strengths battling the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in appropriate extent – specifically, the feeling that ISIS is falling once more from its fortresses in Mosul and Raqqa and that its specific annihilation is practically around the bend.

On Monday, May 8, it was unveiled that Sheik Abdul Hasib, Islamic State leader in the Afghan territory of Khorasan was killed in an attack on April 27 by US and Afghan unique operations strengths, in which two US Army Rangers lost their lives.

Every one of these reports are exact the extent that they go, however they don’t consider the playful sense winning in the ISIS charge. The Islamic association’s strategists, previous officers of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein administration and Baath gathering, are sure they have found a persuading strategic response to the American push for pounding them in Mosul. They don’t trust they are near annihilation or that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s caliphate is anyplace close crumple.

DEBKAfile’s knowledge and counterterrorism sources offer six purposes behind the jihadists’ certainty, which the Mosul fight has on the off chance that anything hardened:

1. The quantities of ISIS warriors as yet battling in the Old City of Mosul is truly thought little of as 300-400 by American and Iraqi military sources. The genuine figure is ten times bigger – 3,000-4,000.

2. The American and the Iraqi charges have not worked out how to counter the ISIS strengths’ gadget of interfacing passages running under structures, which are gotten to through openings blown through the dividers of joined structures. The jihadists can in this way move around between fights in secret.

3. The main constrain ready to battle ISIS strategies is the Iraqi Gold Division, the one first class compel accessible to the US-Iraqi order. It is not however sufficiently huge to battle in more than one field without a moment’s delay and is, besides, too ease back moving to overpower the quick, imperceptible ISIS warriors. Most other Iraqi armed force units have been pulled back from the Mosul front in the wake of being wrecked.

4. ISIS has surrendered the technique of safeguarding huge urban ranges, sought after from the get-go in its battle of success in such places as Ramadi, Tikrit and Fallujah – and the begin of its barrier of Mosul. Rather, their authorities have part them up into little separations of close to 10-15 contenders each for commando and suicide strikes against their enemies. These separations are bolstered by a substantial gathering great behind the bleeding edges which is running mechanical production systems of booby-caught autos for conveyance to the commando separations.

Each is given more than twelve dangerous autos for discharge against Iraqi and US troops for most extreme misfortunes, also a lot of exposive vests for numerous suicide assaults.

5. The impact of this strategy has been lamentable. Fit for entering similarly as 10 km inside Iraqi lines, the savage vehicles and suiciders have figured out how to moderate the US-Iraqi progress and, in a few spots, conveyed it to a stop. The technique has won the title of “outside portable resistance” from American authorities in Syria and Iraq

To put it plainly, the Mosul hostile, evaluated to last several months, is going into its eighth month with not a single end to be seen.

A live case of this strategy was found in Iraq Sunday, May 7, when no less than five ISIS suicide aircraft exploded their explosives vests against Kurdish Peshmerga compels outside the K1 base close to the northern oil city of Kirkuk where US educators are sent. No less than two Kurdish servicemen were executed.

6. High on the accomplishment of their strategies in Iraq, ISIS boss are copying it at the Raqqa front line in Syria. They have started migrating their northern Syrian war rooms toward the eastern Deir ez-Zor area and Euphrates Valley, which straddles the Syrian-Iraqi outskirt. The fear based oppressor association has chosen the little abandon town of Al-Mayadin east of Deir ez-Zor as the following seat for its headquarters, basically in view of its seclusion. Just five streets get to the town, the vast majority of them not fit for vehicular activity thus any moving toward adversary is immediately uncovered.

ISIS is presently wanting to post its “outside layer portable guard framework” squads along the 170km of street connecting Al Mayadin to Raqqa.