ISIS In Iraq: The Numbers Behind The Threat

ABC News gives you the numbers behind the terror group’s assault on Iraq.

ByBY ELY BROWN and PAT O'GARA
March 6, 2015, 6:33 PM
A flag of the Islamic State is seen on the other side of a bridge at the front line of fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Islamist militants in Rashad, on the road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, Sept. 11, 2014.
A flag of the Islamic State is seen on the other side of a bridge at the front line of fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Islamist militants in Rashad, on the road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, Sept. 11, 2014.
JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

— -- With millions of Iraqi citizens living in areas under ISIS control, Iraqi security forces along with Shiite militia groups have begun their largest assault on an ISIS stronghold yet.

All the while, U.S. troops continue to train and assist the Iraqi military and coalition war planes maintain their assaults on ISIS targets.

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