The numbers are terrible both ways: 15,000 killed, and 15,000 new recruits. And the number of people who have been killed in Iraq is still going up.
The numbers are terrible both ways: 15,000 killed, and 15,000 new recruits. A year ago the CIA published an estimate of the number of ISIS fighters in Syria as being in a range of 20,000 to 31,500: 5,500 air-strikes later and the number has not diminished significantly.