SOFX The Crossroads of Special Operations
ISIS has been beat down with defeats against the U.S. when the territorial stronghold was taken back and the leader of the group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in 2019. Over the past year, however, the terrorist network had planned out coordinated attacks and continued to promote propaganda campaigns. Baghdadi’s successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, is a man with little information on his true identity that the U.S. State Department has labeled as a nobody. Despite inheriting a damaged ISIS, Qurashi has the basics needed to build the group back to a terrorizing organization.
Source: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/west-africa/2020-01-01/new-caliph-same-old-problems
