WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The amount of propaganda spread by Daesh terrorist group has decreased by two thirds compared to a year ago, US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Gen. Joseph Votel said in congressional testimony on Thursday.
"There has also been a nearly 75 percent decline in ISIS’s media and propaganda as compared to a year ago," Votel said in a written testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
Votel explained that counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Syria have cut off the Islamic State’s key lines of communication.
On Wednesday, a US defense official said Daesh is no longer a unified force, but still retains about 15,000 fighters. The terror group has also lost about 65 percent of the territory it once held.
