This Has Been The Most Violent Week Of The Entire Syria War

When ISIS ransacked Iraqi army bases during its June blitz through the country's north and west, the radical jihadist group emerged with a number of possible next targets. With its new armor and materiel in tow, it could have tried to destabilize an ever-wary Jordanian monarchy or launched a major offensive on Baghdad. Instead, the Islamic State is consolidating its gains, clearing out Kurdish militias that sit on the edge of the territories it controls and ejecting Assad's army from parts of c...