ISIS is far from moribund, even if it is now a loosely linked network rather than a self-declared caliphate controlling sizeable cities.
There is also the perennial concern among Western security services that individuals inspired by ISIS will launch low-tech attacks – such as stabbings, shootings and driving vehicles into crowds.
Events in the Middle East have pushed already radicalized individuals to violence, according to Rita Katz, executive director of SITE Intelligence, a non-governmental organization that monitors terror groups,.
Syrian vacuumThe US is concerned that should a security vacuum emerge in Syria, ISIS will regroup and expand there.
On the day Bashar al-Assad fled the country, US Central Command hit more than 75 ISIS targets in Syria.
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