US troops are recording victory over ISIS just after few days of attacking the Islamic State strategically but is like ISIS is not ready to just give-up easily as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the group said Al-Amaq, in the valleys near Antakya in southern Turkey including Dabiq is set for the apocalyptic clash between the West and Muslim armies.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
The Islamic State terror leader said the mentioned locations will see the end of "Christian armies".
The towns are referenced in ancient Islamic apocalypse mythology and are of great religious significance to the group.
ISIS in the street Syria
The Islamic terror group has claimed in their propaganda that a field outside Dabiq will witness a "major apocalyptic showdown with the armies of the infidel".A Middle Eastern analyst and research fellow with the Henry Jackson Society, Kyle Orton said: "The coming loss of the town probably in the next fortnight will be a blow to ISIS's ability to recruit, and the Turkish intervention, which has closed the border and driven a wedge between the opposition and al-Qaeda by giving the rebels a realistic alternative, jihadist recruitment in general seems set to suffer in Syria.
"While this will be a short term disadvantage, ISIS has already prepared the ground for this loss by presenting the collapse of its caliphate as a cyclical event: they were defeated in 2008, their hard core held, however, went into the deserts, and came back stronger than ever in 2013.
"And this will surely be repeated. As it happens the Coalition's chosen method of dismantling the caliphate means IS is probably right that its fortunes will revive in relatively short order.
"ISIS's narrative stresses the setbacks the believers must go through to get to the promised land, so they will adapt to this pretty easily by simply saying that the showdown with Christendom was not meant to happen this time."
American commandos are backing Turkish troops to take-out ISIS in Dabiq within the next 48 hours.
Progress stalled over the weekend after the militants were booby-trapped the area surrounding the town.
Progress stalled over the weekend after the militants were booby-trapped the area surrounding the town.
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