More than 25,000 ISIS members have already been killed by Britain and its allies

In continuous strikes on ISIS positions, Britain and her allies have succeeded in eliminating more than 25,000 ISIS fighters. As a result of such repeated assaults, the campaign has halved the number of jihadi fighters in IS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq within a period of just 20 months. It has also eliminated scores of the group's leaders and bombing raids and missile strikes by the RAF have played a crucial role in bringing this situation.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 16 April 2016.

These revelations have been made by Colonel Steve Warren, the US military spokesman for the US-led global coalition against Islamic State. AS he has put it - 'much like a boxer, Daesh [Islamic State] has taken several hard blows to the mid-section. We believe the knees are getting weak, and the head is starting to drop, and they are beginning to feel the effect of the exceptional pressure we've placed on them over 20 months.'
The effect of air strikes in IS-held oilfields has been a slash of its cash flow by a third – that, in turn, led to a drastic 50 per cent pay cut for its fighters. That, coupled with the attack by 650 RAF strikes, the ISIS was forced to flee from 40 per cent of territory it once held in northern Iraq.
The IS extremists had seized swathes of eastern Syria in 2014 during its bloody civil war, before it swept into northern Iraq and proclaimed itself an Islamic caliphate. However, it now appears to be on the back foot. Col Warren indicated that a huge bombing campaign would soon be unleashed on its capital, Raqqa, to pave the way for a ground attack by Kurdish troops.


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Britain to send Apache helicopters to Iraq to fight the ISIS

Britain has taken a decision to go in for a more active role in Iraq and would be sending Apache helicopters to Iraq to fight the ISIS dailymail.co.uk. Till now, only the Royal Air Force had been involved in air strikes against the terror group but, once Apaches, piloted by the Army Air Corps is dispatched to Iraq, it would mean the first British Army involvement in a conflict role in the country.

The reason for sending Apache attack helicopters is because jihadis are able to move around the battlefield quickly since they use social media and messaging application WhatsApp. Therefore, warplanes that are flying at 20,000-30,000ft have to react to moving targets.
It is felt that UK troops would require ‘something that can act very quickly on intelligence’ and Apache helicopters are most suitable for such jobs since they can to fly close to the ground and at a slow speed, hence would be more effective at finding opposition troops on the ground.

Incidentally, Britain had a fleet of eight Apaches in Afghanistan and Prince Harry was among the co-pilots there during 2012.