Despite the ISIS territory losses, the United Nations and the U.S. Defense Department's inspector general estimate that the group still has 20,000 to 31,100 fighters, comparable to 2014.
Psychologically too, it goes through the same territory: a loss of bearings, a loss of dignity, a loss of freedom, a loss of pity.
"To find this common territory of loss".
Entrancingly staged by the director David Cromer, the show's cold, angular sets invoke the early Expressionist works of the filmmaker King Vidor, who mined similar territory — the loss of the individual and of honor, the deadening effects of automation — in works like "The Big Parade" and "The Crowd".
We also witnessed actions we could never have expected from the "good guys": an incursion into the north's territory, the loss of billions of dollars to corruption, the expulsion of a United Nations human rights officer and the recent downing of a United Nations helicopter.
"There have been grave human rights violations experienced: environmental destruction and contamination, health impacts, community divisions, uprooting from territories, sicknesses, loss of culture, prostitution, alcoholism and drug addiction, loss of their own economy, and the ties to organised crime that are generated by the mining industry".
Eli Manning: You could take issue with the bonehead interception, which brought back memories of other ill-conceived back-foot throws in Giants territory (playoff losses to Carolina in 2005, Philadelphia last year).
This swiftly led to what is called transfer pricing: with profits booked in low-tax territories and losses shifted to high-tax jurisdictions.
They have taken swaths of territory, and the loss of areas round Aleppo is a big blow to opposition morale.
17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam is shot down near the village of Grabove in rebel-held territory, with the loss of 298 lives.
