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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP17 Apr 2018 9:43 p.m. PST

"ISIS is like a plantar wart on your toe: If you don't cut all of it out, it will come back and start spreading again.

That appears to be what's happening in Syria, where the terrorist group has surged attacks into areas that the Syrian regime and its Russian allies had controlled, a U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday.

Previously, government officials confidently asserted that ISIS has lost 98% of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria since U.S.-led military operations began in August 2014 Now that ISIS is no longer a conventional army, the fight has become more complicated. The terrorist group is embracing asymmetric warfare tactics and can appear in areas thought cleared. The Syrian regime and Russians prefer to use brute force to solve all problems, but ISIS is attacking their weaknesses, not strengths…."
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Cacique Caribe18 Apr 2018 4:46 a.m. PST

Dead? Who ever really thought that it was?

There's a big difference between forces contained, which is what US military officials have been trying to explain all along, and the actual complete destruction/eradication of a fanatically evil organization of that type.

Dan

Major Mike18 Apr 2018 7:12 a.m. PST

Doesn't help when your best fighters against them are distracted by Turkey's offensive operation.

Cacique Caribe18 Apr 2018 7:24 a.m. PST

Indeed.

Dan

15mm and 28mm Fanatik18 Apr 2018 7:41 a.m. PST

ISIS is not dead, just a mere shadow of its former self. This is probably true of most terrorist groups.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP18 Apr 2018 10:32 a.m. PST

And it is when they became more dangerous….

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Cacique Caribe18 Apr 2018 10:16 p.m. PST

They started off as shadows.

Dan

USAFpilot19 Apr 2018 8:41 a.m. PST

ISIS as a terrorist organization will continue in one form or another until it morphs into something else, but The caliphate has been destroyed.

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