Situation in Syria August 2017

Situation in Syria right now according to Thomas van Linge‏

All this talk in compilatory 'news' articles of ISIL-looted artefacts from Syria going directly across a porous border with Turkey (WSJ this means you, too) do not take recent political events into account.

Here is the matching one of his for Iraq:

What is left of the main core of ISIL terrotory in the Euphrates valley is some 300 km long and some ten or so kilometres wide with nominal control of large areas of desert.  There are two shrinking outliers in the Tigris valley (including Tel Afar).

UPDATE 28th August 2017

Iraqi military reclaims city of Tal Afar after rapid Islamic State collapse