US-led coalition: IS has lost 30 percent of its territory
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The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group says the militants have lost 30 percent of the territory they once held in Iraq and Syria.
Baghdad-based spokesman Col. Steve Warren said Tuesday that the extremists have lost 40 percent of their territory in Iraq and 20 percent in Syria, saying they are now in a "defensive crouch."
The US-led coalition has been launching airstrikes since 2014 in support of Iraqi forces and Kurdish fighters.
Last month, Iraqi forces backed by US-led airstrikes pushed IS out of the city center of Ramadi, a provincial capital west of Baghdad that fell to the extremists last May.
IS still holds much of northern and western Iraq, including the country's second-largest city Mosul, and large parts of Syria.
