CNN News:美国空军部队再次被召集协助伊拉克对抗ISIS恐怖组织

A strategic dam in Iraq, a terrorist group trying to get control, U.S. airstrikes called in to help Iraqi forces. Sounds familiar? The same scenario played out last month at a dam in the Tigris River. Yesterday, it happened at the Euphrates River. Iraqi forces have been fighting ISIS or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It`s the terrorist group trying to get control of strategic places like the Haditha Dam. It provides water to millions of people in western and southern Iraq, so the last thing Iraqis and the U.S. want, is forever to fall into hands of ISIS.

恐怖分子正试图控制伊拉克一座具有重要战略意义的大坝，美国空军部队被召集与伊拉克部队并肩作战。听起来很耳熟是吧?同样一场战役在上一个月底格里斯河大坝已经发生过一次。昨天同样类似的战役发生在幼发拉底河。伊拉克部队一直以来在伊拉克和叙利亚奋力对抗伊斯兰恐怖组织。这个恐怖组织试图占据该国家的战略地区，例如哈迪塞大坝。这个大坝为伊拉克西部和南部的数百万居民提供生活用水，所以伊拉克和美国方面最终的目的是不能让大坝落入ISIS手中。

We know much more about ISIS now than we did a few months ago. We know how brutal they can be, how well financed, how powerful. But one we don`t know about ISIS would still feel values. For starters, how big is their fighting force? On the low end of the estimates, you get around 10,000 people, and the high end around, 80,000. This is in part because ISIS is forming alliances with people who share their radical ideology.

在过去的几个月里我们已经了解了很多关于ISIS的事情，我们知道他们是残忍的，是资金雄厚的，是强大的，但是我们不知道的是有关ISIS有价值的内容。首先，他们的战斗力到底有多强?按最差估计来看，大约有1000人，最高人数可能达到8000人。这些人加入的原因是ISIS组织与认同他们极端思想的人结成同盟。

Now, that does that make these other groups members of ISIS or just temporary partners in crime? You can`t really say.

那它会让ISIS组织成员或者暂时伙伴关系成员进行犯罪行为吗?还真不好说。

How much land does ISIS control? Again, if you look at some maps, you see relatively thin sanctions of northern Iraq and Syria under ISIS control.

目前ISIS已经控制多少领土了?又一次谈到这个问题，如果你看过这些地图的话你就可以看到有相对来说比较少的伊拉克和叙利亚北部领土被ISIS控制。

But if you expand to say let`s talk about all the areas where ISIS has influence or followers. Then you start picking up places like Jordan and Lebanon and even Europe. And the United States. It`s hard to say how many of these people are dedicated to it or if that represents real influence by ISIS.

但是往深里说一点的话就让我们来谈一下这些ISIS控制的领土地区。你就会发现这些地区包含了约旦和黎巴嫩，甚至欧洲地区，还有，美国。所以说很难推测到底有多少人在为ISIS组织效命或者受ISIS组织控制。

What does ISIS want? They want a caliphate. This would be a country, a state ruled by a supreme religious leader who enforces strict Islamic law on the people underneath this person.

ISIS到底想要什么?他们想要建立“哈里发”。这会是一个国家，一个由宗教最高领袖统治的国家，这个最高领袖有权利利用伊斯兰法律控制任何人。

Now, they want to have this right now, it appears in the area spanning Iraq and Syria, along that border, but the question is will they be satisfied with that. If they get that country would they then want more land, more people, more power? Do they have designs on striking the United States?

他们目的就是想要获得这种权利，这种统治制度会在伊拉克和叙利亚边境施行，问题是他们真的会对此感到满意吗?如果他们真的建立了那样一个国家后还会想要获得更多土地更多人民和更多权利吗?他们有袭击美国的计划吗?

There have been videos that suggest that ISIS leaders would like to raise their flag over the White House. We don`t know how much of that is actual planning and how much of it is bluster. Security experts say, it all has to be taken very seriously.

有视频显示其ISIS领导者想把他们国家国旗插到白宫上面。我们不知道这个计划的真实性，也不知道这里面含有多少夸张成分。安全专家称一切行动将谨慎进行。

And finally, that brings up a big questions: what can anyone do about these terrorists? Because despite airstrikes and talk about international cooperation, this remains the biggest unknown about ISIS.

最后还有一个最大的问题就是我们对这些恐怖分子能做些什么?因为除了空袭和国际合作的话，这对如何应对ISIS恐怖组织还是最大的未知答案。