Howland Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. Howland Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. Along with Liberty Township, it is one of two urban townships in Trumbull County. The 2000 census found 19,451 people in the township, 17,546 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
The explanation that is rapidly gaining popularity is that the war in Syria is a pipeline war, fought to ensure that the natural gas from Qatar would go to Europe through Syria and would weaken Europe's dependence on Russia for its energy.
ISIL also controls land in Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, Egypt, and possibly Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group also has insurgent cells in Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, the Caucasus, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia that do not control territory. As of October 2017, ISIS still holds 10,210 km 2 of territory in Iraq and Syria, according to the US-led coalition against ISIS. In early 2017, ISIL controlled approximately 45,377 square kilometers (17520 square miles) of territory in Iraq and Syria and 7,323 km 2 of territory elsewhere, for a total of 52,700 km 2. This represents a substantial decline from the group's territorial peak in late 2014, when it controlled between 100,000 km 2 and 110,000 km 2 of territory in total.