A withdrawal would hand Russia and Iran a strategic victory.

Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and others are surging.

In June alone, the group carried out eighteen attacks.

To the caliphate, murdering Shiites takes precedence.

IS and Palestinian terrorist groups still don’t get along.

Economic investment is no antidote to ideological venom.

Only the U.S. seems out of step.

Nine attacks, and six dead, in a single month.

Not an angry young man, but a married adult with a steady income.

The terrorist group’s prospects do not seem promising.

Its largest attack since March 2019.

And the latter is still getting help from Iran.

The Allied Democratic Forces.