The ISE solution is made up of a deployment of nodes with three different personas: 1  Policy Administration Node (PAN) 2  Monitoring Node (MnT) 3  Policy Services Node (PAN) 4  pxGrid.
That Obama uses ISIL in discussing the terrorists is extremely telling and chilling. To those of us who keep our fingers on the pulse of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the distinctions separating ISIS and ISIL are by no means meager.
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.