US fights Isis resurgence in Syria as jihadis try to regroup

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Experts say a significant risk would be if the Turkish-backed rebels attacked the SDF in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, where the Kurdish-led group runs detention facilities for about 9,000 Isis prisoners, including foreign jihadis.
42% : International coalitions have significantly weakened Isis since the jihadis launched a blitz across Iraq and Syria a decade ago and seized a swath of land about the size of Britain.
39% : The US, UN and others have designated the group and Jolani, who has begun using his birth name Ahmed al-Sharea, as terrorists.
39% : "Another variable will be how Donald Trump approaches Syria and the deployment of US soldiers in the country after he takes office in January.
20% : In his first term, Trump threatened to pull US troops out of Syria, triggering a backlash at home and abroad, and then appeared to greenlight a Turkish offensive against the SDF.

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