(Fox) Despite being driven from its former Iraq and Syria strongholds six months ago, ISIS continues to find ways to wreak havoc across the Middle East, remaining an innovative — if less strategically successful — terror force.
According to a new report from the Heritage Foundation, “The Post-Caliphate Terror Threat in Europe — and the Need for Continuing U.S. Assistance,” ISIS’ territorial defeat can be directly equated with the decline in attacks; but, the author also notes, the threat landscape has changed.
“America’s strategy has worked: It took almost four-and-a-half years, but the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq has been dismantled. Yet the threat from ISIS is far from over,” the report, authored by Heritage national security and foreign policy fellow Rob Simcox, states. “Increased focus is now being placed instead on the danger that ISIS is likely to pose as an insurgency.”
