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31. Mai 2022 · ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), also known as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), is a Sunni jihadist group with a particularly violent ideology that calls itself a caliphate and claims religious authority over all Muslims.
- Tactical Successes Against Terrorist Movements Do Not Defeat Terrorism
- U.S. Official Reports on The State of Terrorism in Iraq and Syria
- Summary Assessment of Isis
- Isis Remains Cohesive and Has Substantial Funding
- Isis in Syria
- Isis in Iraq
- What If The U.S. and Allied Forces Now Leave?
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ISIS is no exception. It is still active in Syria, Iran, and other countries. Furthermore, U.S. official intelligence and military reporting makes this all too clear, regardless of political claims to the contrary. So does the historical record. Changing the name of the threat in Iraq from Al Qaeda to ISIS or ISIL was scarcely a victory. The same w...
This makes it critical to understand what the U.S. government has actually reported about the level of continuing ISIS activity in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. Central Command (USCENTOM) has regularly reported on the fact that ISIS continues to be a threat, but the best unclassified official reports that cover the entire pattern of ISIS activity in Syr...
The full quarterly Operation Inherent Resolvereport for April 1, 2020-June 30, 2020 is 113 pages long, and it covers all of the aspects of the U.S. military and civil fight against ISIS. However, even if one ignores the portions that deal with the challenges posed by cutting U.S. forces, the need to create effective local antiterrorism forces in ea...
Other sections of the report show that ISIS has lost some of its senior leadership, but that it remains a cohesive threat – and one that is capable of self-financing and ongoing recruitment:3
The report did not see major ISIS gains in Syria, but made it clear that ISIS was still an active threat:4
When it comes to ISIS activities in Iraq, the report notes that Iraqi forces had to resume major operations against ISIS, which raises question about the impact of cutting U.S. combat support and train and assist activity:
For all the claims about defeating ISIS, no public official report or plan estimates how long the U.S. should stay in Iraq or Syria, what resources it should keep, and what the cost might be. No official statements seriously address the problems in politics, governance, economics, and civil structures that make Iraq and especially Syria the equival...
Anthony H. Cordesman, Strategic Dialogue: Shaping the Iraqi-U.S. Relationship, July17, 2020, https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/200713_Strategic_Dialogue_FIN.pdfAnthony H. Cordesman, The Greater Middle East: From the “Arab Spring” to the “Axis of Failed States”, August 25, 2020, https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/200824_MENA...28. Juli 2022 · There are many people that currently treat ISIS as if is it’s yesterday’s problem. That in and of itself is a problem. Some see what remains of the ISIS conflict as a security issue that the Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) can handle. Others think there are more important priorities, like Russia’s ...
ISIS focuses primarily on four parts: 1) prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and related technology to other nations and terrorists, 2) lead to greater transparency of nuclear activities worldwide, 3) reinforce the international non-proliferation regime, and 4) cut down nuclear arsenals.
30. März 2024 · The threat to Europe. ISIS-K has ambitions far beyond south Asia, aiming to target Russia, western Europe and even the United States. European security agencies are paying heightened...
6. Sept. 2023 · Exclusive: New security footage could lead to prosecutions for ISIS members. See More Videos. Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a...
4. Feb. 2022 · CNN — Just two days after the leader of ISIS killed himself during a US raid in northern Syria, a United Nations report says the terror group is far from vanquished. In fact, it remains a potent...
