ISIS no longer rules a territory. But its recruits still pose a global threat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Events in the Middle East have pushed already radicalized individuals to violence, according to Rita Katz, executive director of SITE Intelligence, a non-governmental organization that monitors terror groups,.
56% : " Analysts with the non-profit Soufan Center calculated that ISIS attacks in Syria tripled in 2024 compared to the previous year, hovering around 700.
42% : Edmund Fitton-Brown, former coordinator of UN sanctions and threat assessment regarding ISIS and al Qaeda, told CNN last year that ISIS-K "has plugged into the central Asian diaspora, primarily in Russia and Turkey and to some extent in Germany.

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