actually did have a battle in dabiq and lost. syria rebels pushed isis out of the village of dabiq that isis chose to put as the center of their propaganda. awkward, of course, and the magazine was named off the prophesy about a town they now lost, so they took the easy route and renamed the magazine called rumiyah. there's no threat to lose rome and have to lose that magazine title as well. city of mosul in iraq, one of largest of iraq cities. also has distinction of sitting smack in the middle of the tigres river. it was the largest city held by isis anywhere in the world. before isis took over, mosul was home to 2 million people, but once isis took over, the population fell to a half million people because anybody who could get out of there got out of there. isis took mosul, the head of the group delivered a -- well, he'd call it a sermon at a historic mosque in mosul declaring the formation of the islamic caliphate and he was to be the calf life, and that was the first time he appeared in public there many mosul. this summer,