The atrocities committed by ISIS in the 2010s are legion: massacres, the attempted genocide of the Yazidi people, public executions, sexual slavery, the list goes on and on. And yet, we have been led to believe that ISIS was 'defeated' as of 2019 (ex US President Donald Trump used the phrase 'totally defeated'). Recent acts in many countries, including an attack on a Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey claimed by ISIS put this notion in doubt. What is the ISIS threat to the world, and more narrowly to Europe? A conversation with Lorenzo Vidino of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University.
The atrocities committed by ISIS in the 2010s are legion: massacres, the attempted genocide of the Yazidi people, public executions, sexual slavery, the list goes on and on. And yet, we have been led to believe that ISIS was 'defeated' as of 2019 (ex US President Donald Trump used the phrase 'totally defeated'). Recent acts in many countries, including an attack on a Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey claimed by ISIS put this notion in doubt. What is the ISIS threat to the world, and more narrowly to Europe? A conversation with Lorenzo Vidino of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University.