"Killing more ISIS again ..." Topic

This week 70 ISIS targets in Syria were hit. After the killing 2 US Soldiers, operating near Palmyra, Syria.

The targets were hit with FA, Gunships, air strikes from both US and Jordanian aircraft.

Body was 5 ISIS killed. And a lot of ISIS infrastructure, e.g. ammo dumps, supply points, vehicles etc.

Their approx. 9000 ISIS in prison camps in Syria and Iraq. The camps are divided with males in some. And females and children in others. Kurds and other Arab tribes, etc. are the guards.

It appears these fanatics including women and children can't be released. As it is believed, and rightly so, they will go on jihad again.

Legion +1

Jordan has approximately 1,250 ISIS fighters detained. Jordan has been cautious about repatriating its citizens who joined the group.

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The strikes make sense in context. ISIS isn't gone; it's degraded, fragmented, and opportunistic. The Palmyra area has been a recurring transit and reconstitution zone for years, especially for logistics and desert mobility rather than massed fighters.

The detention camps are the real strategic problem. Roughly 9,000 ISIS fighters—plus tens of thousands of affiliated women and children—represent a long-term security liability, not a humanitarian abstraction. No regional state wants repatriation responsibility, and history has shown that "release + monitoring" fails more often than it succeeds.

Jordan's caution is rational. So is continued kinetic pressure on ISIS infrastructure. This isn't about revenge or optics—it's about preventing re-formation in permissive spaces where governance is thin and memory is long.

ISIS survives on time and neglect. Denying both is the point.

Camps -- prison, POW, or refugee -- often turn into permanent prisons, which could well happen here.

I don't have any solutions, but I can think of some RPG and miniatures game scenarios set in camps of those types.

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Armand