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War won't stop because both sides want peace. As long as the kurds maintain a rigid border that isis can't push any further, then throwing more solders only hurts them. Eventually they will regroup and attack again but even religious fanatics will eventually ask themselves if resources are better spent somewhere else.
This rests on the assumption that isis will be allowed to exist as some sort of a quasi state. I don't think that will be the case as neither Iraq nor Syria would be content to maintain the status quo, and our air power will considerably worsen the situation for isis.