Islamic State's territory shrank by 40% from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20% in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the US-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the hardline Islamist group on the estimates. "We believe in Iraq it's about 40% ... And Syria, harder to get a good number, we think it's around 20," coalition spokesman US army Col Steve Warren told a press briefing in Baghdad. "Taking together Iraq and Syria .. they lost 30% of the territory they once held," he said.
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