While the Islamic State and jihadist terror groups have faded from the headlines, American Enterprise Institute Fellow Katherine Zimmerman says their influence persists around the globe.
- Zimmerman said the Islamic State is growing in Afghanistan and across Africa even though its core leadership has been degraded in Iraq and Syria.
- She said areas with poor governance and weak security forces are most susceptible and that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the Islamic State’s ability to tap into local anti-government sentiment.
- The United States’ heavy reliance on over-the-horizon drone attacks on terror targets does not solve the problem in the long term, argued Zimmerman.
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