(New York Times) Jane Arraf - With an attack on a prison housing thousands of former ISIS fighters in Syria and a series of strikes against military forces in Iraq, the evidence of a resurgence of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is mounting by the day, nearly three years after the militants lost the last patch of territory of their caliphate. The U.S. has conducted airstrikes and provided intelligence and ground troops in Bradley fighting vehicles to help cordon off the prison. What had been believed to be disparate sleeper cells are re-emerging as a more serious threat. "It's a wake-up call for regional players, for national players, that ISIS is not over, that the fight is not over," said Kawa Hassan, Middle East and North Africa director at the Stimson Center in Washington. "It shows the resilience of ISIS to strike back at the time and place of their choosing."
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