![]() Even after America spent billions of dollars during two presidencies to defeat ISIS, deployed troops across Iraq and Syria, and dropped thousands of bombs, ISIS persists. The reality, though, suggests that a definitive end to the conflict remains out of reach. ![]() Nevertheless, the conflict is ongoing, and to the extent that the Democratic presidential candidates mention the fight, it’s to express their desire to withdraw troops. But a Kurdish leader who witnessed the militant group’s rise and fall is warning that ISIS is putting itself back together and stressing an uncomfortable fact: that ISIS is bigger now than it was nearly six years ago, when it founded its self-styled caliphate.Įager to move on, President Donald Trump has declared victory over ISIS. ![]() ![]() The Islamic State has lost all of its territory tens of thousands of its fighters have been killed or are imprisoned and its former leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is dead.
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