Islamic State’s Global Resurgence Exposes Washington’s Security Gaps and Risks America

The Islamic State (IS) continues to exploit fractured states across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, revealing critical vulnerabilities in global security frameworks and posing direct risks to American interests. A recent United Nations counterterrorism briefing exposes how IS's adaptation to new technologies like artificial intelligence and social media is empowering its propaganda, recruitment, and financing networks on multiple continents. Why Has ISIS Survived Despite Defeat in Iraq? Though declared militarily defeated in Iraq by 2017, IS has morphed from controlling territory into an elusive global network of sleeper cells and affiliates. UN experts report a resurgence across Africa's...