Is ISIS defeated in Iraq and Syria? (Report)

In the span of nine months, ISIS has gone back to being the “JV team.”

The Islamic State, a day after being ousted from its defacto capital of Raqqa, is losing its foothold in the two nations where it established its bloody roots and grew from former President Barack Obama’s infamous “JV team” into an unrelenting exporter of global terror.

Once the owner — or captor — of a swath of land in Syria and Iraq, the militant group has lost control of its two key cities — and at least half of the original territory it once brazenly roamed.

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters ride atop military vehicles as they celebrate victory in Raqqa against ISIS soldiers.

 (Reuters)

Now, ISIS is reportedly “regrouping and recruiting” in other chaos-torn nations as its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, resurfaces in cryptic audio messages, urging “soldiers of Islam and caliphate supporters” to remain…