The U.S. director of national intelligence said yesterday that the Islamic State (IS) group remains a terrorist threat despite its recent defeats in Iraq and Syria, the Newsmax website reports today (February 18, 2018).
Dan Coats told a gathering of world leaders, diplomats, and defense officials at the Munich Security Conference that defeating the radical group was like "killing an octopus."
Coats said: "It's more than just a terrorist organization. It is an ideology and perhaps a theology, and the combination of ideology and theology outlasts defeats on the battlefield."
Coats concluded that the current assessment of the future of the Islamic State is that it "will remain a threat."
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