There is still the possibility of a backlash in nations around the globe as loyalists resist surrender. The regime in France has been tenacious, but, there will be no more training grounds once the civil war in Syria ends. If it ever ends.
  
November 12, 2016 
Baghdad, Considering their stonghold (click here) over 
Mosul threatened as the Iraqi army advances, the Islamic State (IS) 
fighters have started employing boys as young as 12 to the frontlines 
with suicide belts. Witnesses in Raqqa and Mosul – as well as the UN’s 
high commissioner for refugees – said Isis had also displaced tens of 
thousands of residents for use as human shields as it came under 
increasing military pressure, the Guardian reported. Of the nearly 
48,000 refugees that have fled Mosul, many have described how the 
Islamist occupiers are becoming more brutal.
Several residents have said that in the past week, many had been 
killed by Isis for reasons as trivial as carrying a mobile phone sim 
card. According to the UN high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra’ad 
Al Hussein, Isis has killed nearly 60 alleged spies and battlefield 
deserters in Mosul in the last two days. On Monday, an underground 
prison was found in the Shura district, containing 961 emaciated men and
 boys who had been forced into tiny cages and had been tortured....