Will Emwazi's death have any effect on ISIS?

It's more of a symbolic victory. If the US is able to find his location and kill him, it sends a message that ISIS is not invincible as it claims to be. Some commanders might be worried as well - if the US can get intelligence on someone like Emwazi, what else do they know about other important ISIS members and commanders?

I'm still wondering why the west haven't done anything about him up until now? that's the real question

Most people are behind Russia - it's correct to keep Assad and call for democratic elections rather than destroy the country and put in an incompetent puppet leader.

The obvious reasons include:

Not having a previous shooting opportunity that didn't risk injuring innocent people.
Not have a previous clear shooting opportunity of any kind.
Not knowing his whereabouts sufficiently accurately.
Having higher priority targets.

There must be many more.

Assad could have accepted the calls for democratic reforms in 2011. Instead he set the Shabiha and the security forces on the protestors, killing and torturing, and when the armed uprising started, he released thousands of jihadis from the prisons so that he could claim his enemies were Islamist terrorists.

The man is a butcher. And it is the result of his policies that Syria is a failed state today. The cherry on top is his tacit ceasefire and trade deal with ISIL; he is their largest source of income. So on that score, it is utter hypocrisy for Assad or Russia to claim they are truly fighting ISIL. The groups that have consistently fought ISIL are the Americans and the Kurds

The death of him has pretty much symbolised the beginning of the end of ISIS.

Let's hope so.

We don't know for certain if he's dead or alive,however if he has been killed by the west,do you think it'll have any effect in any way on ISIS/ISIL?

Or is it less significant than the capture of sinjar?

Jihadi John's death won't affect ISIS directly however when it comes to recruitment and their idea of an invincible caliphate protected by Allah it's had irreparable damage. It's likely that it'll signify the end of IsIs as the cultural bohemoth it is today and most people won't know who ISIS are in 5 years time. However directly the Kurdish liberation of Sinjad will likely affect IsIs massively to the extent that there might not be a ISIS presence in Iraq at all by Christmas. This is because Sinjad has only motorway in northern Iraq going through it and the Kurds can now block that motorway meaning ISIS in Syria are completely disconnected from ISIS in its Iraqi stronghold (Mosul). It's likely Mosul isn't far falling either. Those two things on top of Russia stepping up its intervention and the west's continued contribution mean that ISIS's days are numbered (until the next group come along).

Jihadi John's death won't affect ISIS directly however when it comes to recruitment and their idea of an invincible caliphate protected by Allah it's had irreparable damage. It's likely that it'll signify the end of IsIs as the cultural bohemoth it is today and most people won't know who ISIS are in 5 years time. However directly the Kurdish liberation of Sinjad will likely affect IsIs massively to the extent that there might not be a ISIS presence in Iraq at all by Christmas. This is because Sinjad has the only motorway in northern Iraq going through it and the Kurds can now block that motorway meaning ISIS in Syria are completely disconnected from ISIS in its Iraqi stronghold (Mosul). It's likely Mosul isn't far from falling either. Those two things on top of Russia stepping up its intervention and the west's continued contribution mean that ISIS's days are numbered (until the next group come along).

Do you think it was bad that the UK showed so much news on Jihadi John. Somewhere in me, I can see a few basement dwellers cheering out loud whenever they saw John and were inspired. I honestly think it would have been better to ignore him because Muslims who lack role models may see him as one.

Who would take Mosul or Raqqa? The Kurds have no willingness to march into Arabic cities.

Raqqa is in Syria so that's far off but Mosul will likely be taken down by a joint effort by the Iraqi government,Kurds and western special forces. Now that the motorway is blocked and winter is coming food,water and fuel supplies will be running low and that's when we will strike.

I don't think we can ever totally forgot about ISIS and what they've done.

Can you feom the top of your head tell me which terrorist organisation had done 9/11? Who did the Pakistani school massacre? Who did the beslen massacre? The average person wouldn't be able to answer all them without help. ISIS's actions will be remembered but their name won't, there will be one name given to them however . One name that links these all together and that will be the name we use.

Would you guys rather he was brought back to the UK and put on trial or left to die where he is,if he is dead?