12 June 2016 – In simultaneous, if not
            necessarily coordinated operations, there are attacks
            against the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS or Daech in
            its Arabic abbreviation) in Syria and Iraq.  ISIS had
            abolished in practice the frontier between Iraq and Syria,
            which had been created in 1916 by the agreement of Sir Mark
            Sykes for the UK and Francois Georges−Picot for France.
            Particular attention must be paid to the current battle for