ISIL is visibly running out of steam and ideas

Last week, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a new video of horrific brutality. It was meant to display the group’s prowess and show off its power. In reality, it probably indicates that the group is not getting any stronger but weaker by the day.

ISIL took the world’s media by storm earlier this year when it started taking huge swathes of territory. Few should have been surprised. Several Syria analysts warned this was a possibility, but once it became a fact, ISIL found itself the pre-eminent terrorist group in the world. And it revelled in it. The more the world’s press regards ISIL as infamous, the more they are likely to report it.

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