Many of the hard-core ISIS* members who have decided to stay to make a last stand are imported muscle, who went to Syria and Iraq in 2014-2016, with up to 50 of them being British citizens, the Daily Star reported.
Good. Die there.
The British newspaper further wrote, citing sources in the YPG [Kurdish People’s Protection Units], that a total of around 500 high-ranking ISIS*
According to the estimates of several YPG fighters, clearing the territory of ISIS remnants could take from several days up to several weeks to carry out.
"The time to negotiate and play around with these gunnies is over. They need to give up or they die", an anonymous YPG commander reportedly said.
However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
the mop-up operations are complicated by citizens fleeing from areas occupied by the terrorist group. One Kurdish fighter told the Daily Star that "hundreds" are fleeing every day, with most of them being "ISIS wives".
In addition to the continual series of defeats by Kurdish and government forces, ISIS is reportedly also suffering from internal squabbles.
The Guardian reported on February 8, citing anonymous intelligence sources, that the leader of the terrorist organization, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart..., had survived an liquidation attempt on 10 January in a village near Hajin.
The attack was allegedly part of an unsuccessful coup organised veteran foreign fighter Abu Muath al-Jazairi, who now has a bounty on his head.