Opinion: Islamic State may have lost its caliphate in the Middle East, but it retains the capability to cause mayhem thousands of miles away, writes dhume
Islamic State has lost its caliphate in the Middle East, but it retains the capability to cause mayhem thousands of miles away. This is the grim lesson of the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, in which suicide bombers killed more than 250 people at three churches and three luxury hotels. No region is entirely safe from such attacks, but South Asian democracies such as India and Sri Lanka appear particularly vulnerable.
In March, Islamic State lost its last sliver of Syrian territory to U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, but the...
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