ISIS has intensified attacks worldwide over the past six months despite sustained international pressure. The group continues to carry out and inspire “destructive attacks” across a wide geographic arc, from Syria and Iraq to the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, East Africa and Australia. UN monitors report growing financial resilience and more sophisticated propaganda. Conditions in Syria’s detention camps, holding mostly women and children, remain dire. The UN concludes that the threat from ISIS is increasing and becoming more diffuse.
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ISIS has intensified attacks worldwide over the past six months despite sustained international pressure. The group continues to carry out and inspire “destructive attacks” across a wide geographic arc, from Syria and Iraq to the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, East Africa and Australia. UN monitors report growing financial resilience and more sophisticated propaganda. Conditions in Syria’s detention camps, holding mostly women and children, remain dire. The UN concludes that the threat from ISIS is increasing and becoming more diffuse.