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
