According to IHS Jane’s, after Kurds and a small number of moderate Arab rebels ousted the Islamic State from the northern Syria border town of Tal Abyad, the extremists have struggled to balance their budget. The Islamic State surrendered more than half of that territory - 14 percent - last year and 2016 has already proven crippling. Less than two years later, the self-proclaimed caliphate has lost 22 percent of that territory, according to a report published this week by IHS Jane’s 360, a defense analysis think tank. At the end of 2014, the Islamic State controlled one-third of Iraq and one-third of Syria - a land mass roughly equal to the area of Great Britain - where the extremist group ruled over upward of 9 million people.
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