Nothing to be concerned about. Obama says that we’re on the way to degrading and destroying the Islamic State, and he wouldn’t lie to us, now, would he?
“ISIS attacks are dramatically increasing over a year into the US-led campaign against the group,” by Alex Lockie, Business Insider, October 22, 2015:
IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre issued a report on October 22nd stating that ISIS attacks rose in the 3rd quarter of 2015 compared to the previous three-month period, both in terms of the number of non-militant casualties and the frequency of attacks.
Jane’s reported 1,086 separate attacks between July 1 and September 30 of this year, or a daily average of 11.8 daily. That’s up from 8.3 last quarter, representing an increase of 42%.
The attacks killed 2,978 non-militants, a 65% increase from the previous quarter.
Jane’s concludes that the true number of attacks was likely “far higher,” as the agency relies on open-source intelligence and only reports what can be confirmed definitively by governments, or attacks claimed by the ISIS militants themselves.
The uptick is significant in showing that though ISIS failed to gain a significant amount of territory during that time period, they remained capable of inflicting damage to targets around in the Middle East and Africa even in areas outside of their control.
“We’re probably more in a consolidation phase currently where the group is stabilizing gains its made and protecting those gains,” Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center, told NBC News.
Of the attacks outside of ISIS’s are of control, Nigeria was a main target, likely because of the presence of ISIS affiliate Boko Haram. Though the total number of attacks outside of the group’s “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq dropped, the casualties per strike rose considerably.
“This underlines the nature of the group’s insurgency in Nigeria and several bordering countries, with its operations characterized by mass-casualty operations targeting the civilian population,” the report noted, according to NBC.
Though the data set reported ends on the same day that Russia began its bombing campaign in Syria, the findings support claims that international efforts to roll back ISIS have fallen flat. Despite constant hammering from a US-led coalition, ISIS is still capable of carrying out constant attacks across a wide geographic area.
“They’re able to make daily life fraught and dangerous and insecure,” Henman added.
But ISIS still focuses on their home turf. The 902 ISIS attack in Iraq and Syria, which resulted in 1,780 non-militant fatalities, represent 83% percent of all ISIS attacks recorded over the period.
While ISIS attacks and operations are still centered Iraq and Syria, this report shows that the organization has so far successfully weathered the multi-national military effort to stop them and have even branched out to become a consistent global threat.
No kidding, really?

Matthieu Baudin says
It’s hard to work out if the effort is half hearted or less than half hearted. Russian forces will need to achieve something tangible or they’ll also be damned by their own hype.
Don McKellar says
Indeed. Putin needs to recognize that his success in showing up and humiliating Barry bin Obama relies completely on absolutely obliterating and removing the Islamic State from its territory in Syria. Absolutely the Russian-Syrian-Chinese forces need to destroy Obama’s jihadis like they are doing. But that’s only job one. Putin needs to show no mercy and slaughter the whole works including the Islamic State in Syria and go all out or go home. If he does that, his own moslems “at home” will bow and cower as moslems should. If he does not, he faces a huge escalation of mad dog Islamic supremacists on his own turf. Does he realize he has put himself in a victory or death position?
dajjal says
Given the reaction to the Afghan bungle, if he was wise to the consequences, he’d have stayed out of it and kept quiet. He lacks intellectual rigor.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
We armed them when our allies the Iraqi Army laid down their weapons and walked away from the bases packed with ammo and equipment that we built for them and supplied. There has been zero consequence for that treachery. Baghdad persists as a client richly funded by U.S. taxpayer money.
We let our ally Turkey transship Mosul oil to market to give ISIS its rich tax flow for a cut of the proceeds, critical cash flow for the New Caliphate to be able to expand operations. There has been zero consequence for this in Istanbul, indeed, should Turkey be attacked we’ll be obligated to make full on war on its behalf.
It would seem that our Islam policy is not what it could be.
BC says
It is odd how everybody has forgotten Maliki, he was so scared as he ruled as a sectarian that he staffed his army with Shia officers loyal to him. Those are the officers who deserted, What would you do if you saw your officers tearing off their uniforms and running away? No soldiers will stand and fight if it is not led by officers they respect. It was the Shia officers that IS was busy executing, so fleeing was not only cowardly but .useless. If they had resisted IS they would probably have beaten them, they had the equipment after all. I am sure that the US trained them well also.
Paladin says
Russia apparently didn’t learn much from their debacle in Afghanistan in the 80’s. The mujahideen will shoot enough helicopters out of the sky that Putin will lose interest and go home, after expending blood and treasure to once again fight Islam. Thankfully the boy King has the deeper pockets of the American taxpayer to fund his PR wars all over the Middle East, which conveniently distract Americans from his total failure on domestic issues like obamacare, the economy and immigration. Can Hillary, Obama, et al. point to a single success story in the last 7 years?
dajjal says
Our Morons thought they could use Muslims as cats paws against Russia, gave them weapons and training. Our Morons are not intelligent enough to know that mutual enemies are still enemies. My enemy is not converted to my griend when he attacks another enemy.
Our Morons displayed weakness in Korea, Vietnam & Mogadishu. They failed to read the trove of documents found in Nosair’s apartment. They failed to retaliate for WTC1. They failed to nuke Tora Bora.
Our Morons armed and trained Iraquis who refused to fight their Muslim brothers and hauled ass, leaving the equipment behind.
Our Morons gave Libian weapons to rfebels in Syria.
Our Morons pursued their damned fool democracy project and Arab Spring, which sprung back to bite us in the ass.
Our Morons made a few pin prick strikes, blowing up empty buildings and avoiding important targets. They sat idle and watched when ISIS lined up a large convoy to attack Mosul when they should have sent in the Wart Hogs.
The enemy are Muslims. They believe that being killed in battle gets them outta Hell and into Allah’s celestial bordello. Kill them weherever you find them. Set for them every trap and ambush. Bomb and strafe their funeral processions. Wack their friends, families, financiers, enablers, supporters and cheerleaders.
Moab their training camps. Daisy Cut ther their meeting places. Strafe their convoys. pick them off with snipers. Carpet bomb their cities.
Mock them. Caricature them. Insult them. Insult Allah. Insult Moe. Do everything you can to destroy their Iman. Show them proof of the fact that Moe was an AssWhole and Allah is Satan. Total war! Global war!! or perpetual war that will end with our defeat.
We elected a series of Morons and Traitors. We are reaping the harvest of the shit we sowed. We have a new chance in ’16, don’t blow it!!!
roger woodhouse says
I agree with that and more but ‘our morons’ only ‘react’ to events in case they just ‘might ‘ make the wrong decision which will then be exposed in hindsight.. ‘Our morons’ are only concerned about winning the next election to continue feeding at the trough.. All you have written above will occur when its too late and thousands more of our people are killed by these muslim brainwashed filth.
dajjal says
I can not share your optimism. If the Moron’s could be wised up, WTC2 would have been sufficient. It was not. They are incapable. Another mass casualty attack will only result in renewed demands to censor critics of Isdamn.
Jeremiah says
Hillary Clinton admitted that she lied about the cause of the death of Ambassador Stevens. We know that Obama lied about Yemen and many military reports. How can we continue with this President? What is Congress waiting for?
When we get the truth, then we can stat defeating ISIS.
sahani says
AS Nazis killed own germans. Communist own in Russia ,Chinese their own people. Looks like Islamic local converts killing own people all over the world.
Get rid of one book and make sure arab don’t exist.
Without money supply these terror can exist.
A.T. Halmay says
We shouldn’t be too hard on Obama. After all, it is a difficult thing for any man to attempt to destroy part of his family for any reason. He must worry about “What will Allah think?”
marken says
IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre stats were prepared for which of their clients? After all they are not releasing these to news agencies as a public service. They say the causalities may be higher but they only use causalities that can be confirmed by government sources…their own clients? The IS count could just as well be lower and the death rate of civilians higher, much higher. They could just as well be claiming the kills that were actually made by Syrian forces. Strange they release this to NBC, another corp supporting the administration’s alleged fight against IS. I don’t believe the stats. I believe it is a backdoor fight against Assad and if successful will result in more Christian deaths. I do not have a good reason to believe this corporate entity.
Angemon says
Consolidation? No, no. no. no, no – preparation for the next expansion.
f c king says
Perhaps Hussein Obama has directed the air assets to crater roads only, so as not to take out any believers, but to slow the advance ?
Cecilia Ellis says
“Despite constant hammering from a US-led coalition, ISIS is still capable of carrying out constant attacks across a wide geographic area.”
Even though four Toyota pickups and 14 empty buildings have been destroyed . . .
James says
It should be obvious by now to the most brain dead of Obamatons that their dear leader has no intention of ever damaging ISIS, but is just playing games with American lives! Our imitation prez (thanks to 93% of US blacks and 100% of Dems) is a muslim communist dedicated to destroying the USA incrementally every time he picks up his pen and his phone. Vote him and all loon-toons Liberal traitors out of office on election day 2016! We have never had such a clear choice before between Good and Evil