Daesh still poses global threat, US officials say

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Sat, 2019-08-03 02:34

WASHINGTON: Daesh remains a global threat despite losing the once vast territory it held in Syria and Iraq, US officials said in warning about persistent violence from underground cells and an expansion of militants into new areas.
Ambassador James Jeffrey, the State Department envoy to the international coalition fighting Daesh, told reporters that thousands of the extremist organization’s members are scattered around Syria and Iraq, where officials see a “persistent, resilient, rural terrorist level of violence” in that country.

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