Have any big resolutions for 2016? Hm?

Maybe lose some weight? Finally finish that screenplay? Run a marathon? Organize your sock drawer?

Well, whatever they are, we can promise you this: the United States-led coalition resolutions/goals for this new year are much, much bigger.

Like, retaking ISIS’s “caliphate” city of Raqqa (in Syria) — ripping it away from them entirely as well as reclaim their second city, Mosul, in Iraq.

How will they do it?

According to Reuters, like this:

The strategy is to regain territory at the heart of IS’s cross-border state, take both its “capitals”, and destroy the confidence of its fighters that it can expand as a Sunni caliphate and magnet for jihadis, according to these Arab and Western officials, few of whom were willing to speak on the record on a matter of such strategic sensitivity.

“The plan is to hit them in Raqqa in Syria and in Iraq at Mosul, to crush their capitals,” said an Iraqi official with knowledge of the strategy. “I think there is some speed and urgency by the coalition, by the U.S. administration and by us to end this year with the regaining of control over all territory.”

“Iraqi officials say 2016 will witness the elimination of Daesh (IS) and the Americans have the same idea – get the job finished, then they can withdraw and (President Barack) Obama will have a legacy,” said a diplomat in Baghdad, emphasizing the Iraqi part of the operation. “The day Mosul is liberated, Daesh will be defeated.”

ISIS is also subversively referred to as “Daesh”. They’re also known as the Islamic State, IS, ISIL, among others.

Just a few weeks ago in Mosul, the coalition dropped two 2,000-pound bombs on an ISIS facility that stored millions of dollars in American cash the terrorists collected for selling off oil they pirated and stole (between $1 million and $1.3 million, reportedly).

In the past year, in Iraq, ISIS has been chased out of Tikrit, Sinjar, Baiji, and Ramadi. In Syria, the terrorist organization has been uprooted from Kobani and Tel Abyad by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) — the U.S.-backed Kurdish military.

Out of “seven strategic roads” that run between Iraq and Syria, ISIS only has one currently, which experts say means they can longer move with ease, especially since Turkey has brought down their own formidable hammer upon them.