SYRIA - Collapse of the Caliphate and New Threats

We may have defeated the ISIS army but you do not defeat a religious movement with military action.

"As caliphate collapses, new ISIS threats emerge in Syria" PBS NewsHour 3/19/2019

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SUMMARY:  After nearly five years of fighting, a U.S.-led coalition has almost completely destroyed what's known as the territorial caliphate, the Islamic pseudo-state created in Iraq and Syria by ISIS--but that doesn’t mean the end of the terror group.  Amna Nawaz talks to special correspondent Jane Ferguson for an on-the-ground look at what war has left behind in Syria and the threat that remains.