The president continued to break with the more measured messages former Presidents George W. The Global Coalition Against ISIS assures that despite major achievements, much work remains.
“That task is particularly important as the chaos of the past few weeks in northern Syria has jeopardized years of hard work and sacrifice by American and Kurdish troops to evict ISIS from its strongholds in Syria,” Biden added.Ī recent CNN-SSRS poll found 59 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling foreign policy, with 38 percent saying they approve. It is far from being defeated and it will take years of strong coalitions, structural changes and international commitment to totally defeat the terrorist group.
ISIS remains a threat to the American people and our allies, and we must keep up the pressure to prevent ISIS from ever regrouping or again threatening the United States,” former Vice President Joe Biden, one of the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runners, said in a statement. “We cannot afford to get distracted or take our eye off the target. "It has morphed into other forms of extremism and the threat is very much alive," he said.As Trump took a victory lap on Sunday, top Democrats warned ISIS is far from neutered. For sure, its a shadow of what is was at the zenith of the self-declared Caliphate, when it controlled territory the size of Hungary. "It begs the question of what our policy toward ISIS currently is. Are we just declaring victory and going home, assuming that ISIS is beaten once and forever?"īritish Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood said he believes ISIS is far from conquered. But its easier to ask whether ISIS is defeated or not. troops introduces more instability into the region, ISIS could exploit that and reconstitute itself," Piazza said. efforts to fight ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. The battle against the Taliban government in Afghanistan offers a stark warning against early proclamations of victory, and the Taliban's resurgence in recent years reveals how a territorial defeat is only the first part of a. He added that removing troops could expose the Kurds to brutal attacks. The Kurdish militias were critical to U.S. Even though ISIS no longer controls any territory, over 15,000 ISIS fighters, many of them armed, remain in the region. Piazza says the weakness of the Iraqi government and Syrian unrest related to the Arab Spring encouraged ISIS to attempt to build its caliphate. "I think there is a legitimate fear that with President Trump’s withdrawal of troops, ISIS could have an opportunity to revive," Mattis said. He says Trump's decision to remove troops from Syria is a risky one. Piazza forecasts that ISIS will continue to commit attacks while it awaits an opportunity to re-emerge as a military force. "It still has fighters in Iraq and Syria, but they have gone underground." The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) is not defeated despite the loss of the territory it claimed as its so-called Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. "Most people suspect ISIS is transforming into a more traditional terrorist insurgent group now that it has lost its caliphate," Piazza said. In the space between the tawny brown desert and the crystal blue sky, a boy wears a secondhand military uniform two sizes too bighis small hands gripping a gun taller than his body. Penn State professor James Piazza recently completed work on a study showing that as ISIS has lost military ground, it has increasingly resorted to terror attacks outside its proposed caliphate in Syria and Iraq. What becomes of the ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ in Iraq By Heba Malik. Kazianis says smart intelligence, a clandestine CIA footprint, cyber-snooping and other intelligence methods can ensure that "ISIS never rises again." Iran and Russia have more influence than the U.S. Trump made a similar declaration more than three months ago. More: Trump will continue troop withdrawal from Syria More: US envoy to anti-ISIS coalition quits over Trump’s Syria move More: President Trump names Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary However, there will always be a few bees left that can sting you – that means terror attacks, cyber operations and perhaps even attacks on the U.S. You can kill all the bees – think their soldiers and military equipment. 'Syrian Democratic Forces declare total elimination of so-called caliphate and 100 territorial defeat of Isis the IS group,' Mustafa Bali, the head of the SDF media office, tweeted on Saturday. "You can crush the hive – in this case ISIS and its so-called caliphate. "The challenge with taking on a group such as ISIS is it’s like taking a baseball bat to a beehive," Kazianis told USA TODAY.