By Kimberly Dozier
A new report stands in stark contrast to earlier White House assurances
that ISIS had been ‘contained.’ And it is already spurring changes in
how the U.S. grapples with ISIS.
A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White
House, predicts that the self-proclaimed Islamic State will spread
worldwide and grow in numbers, unless it suffers a significant loss of
territory on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials told The
Daily Beast.
The report stands
in stark contrast to earlier White House assurances that ISIS had been
“contained” in Iraq and Syria. And it is already spurring changes in how
the U.S. grapples with ISIS, these officials said.
It’s also a tacit admission that coalition efforts so far—dropping
thousands of bombs and deploying 3,500 U.S. troops as well as other
coalition trainers—have been outpaced by ISIS’s ability to expand and
attract new followers, even as the yearlong coalition air campaign has
helped local forces drive ISIS out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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