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    Under cover of COVID, ISIS is seeking a comeback

    Jul 28, 2020 5 minutes

    The Islamic State is eyeing a comeback on the battlefield and the world stage, testing a fragile global community that is combating the coronavirus and distracted from its fight against extremism.

    ISIS is taking advantage of the pandemic’s burden on local governments and world powers’ inward focus to step up attacks and pitch to new recruits, the United Nations and experts warn, and reemerge from the hinterlands to strike in the Arab world and Africa.

    The reawakening of ISIS exposes not only the fragility of the status quo, but the extremist group’s evolution as a movement.  

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    Three years after the destruction of its so-called caliphate and the dismantling of its organizational leadership by an American-led

    COVID as catalystDivisions in IraqAfrica pushBattle for ideas

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