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ISIS Affiliate Linked to Moscow Attack Has Global Ambitions
Five years ago this month‚ an American-backed Kurdish and Arab militia ousted Islamic State fighters from a village in eastern Syria‚ the group’s last sliver of territory.
Since then‚ the organization that once staked out a self-proclaimed caliphate across Iraq and Syria has metastasized into a more traditional terrorist group — a clandestine network of cells from West Africa to Southeast Asia engaged in guerrilla attacks‚ bombings and targeted assassinations.