{"id":22295,"date":"2021-06-29T01:47:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T01:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/06\/29\/us-warns-that-islamic-state-extremists-still-a-world-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:16:56","slug":"us-warns-that-islamic-state-extremists-still-a-world-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/06\/29\/us-warns-that-islamic-state-extremists-still-a-world-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns that Islamic State extremists still a world threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROME \u2014 As the U.S. works on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/06\/27\/biden-vows-sustained-help-as-afghanistan-troop-drawdown-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\">its military withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a>, members of the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group met Monday to chart future steps against the extremist group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting came just a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2021\/06\/27\/us-jets-strike-iran-backed-militia-groups-in-iraq-and-syria-in-response-to-ongoing-drone-rocket-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. launched airstrikes against Iran-backed militias<\/a> near the Iraq-Syria border<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio co-chaired the gathering of senior officials from the seven-year-old, 83-member bloc. Participants were taking stock of current efforts to ensure the complete defeat of IS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/11\/19\/top-us-general-in-the-mideast-says-isis-in-iraq-and-syria-still-long-term-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\">whose remnants still pose a threat in Iraq and Syria<\/a> and have shown signs of surging in parts of Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/11\/19\/top-us-general-in-the-mideast-says-isis-in-iraq-and-syria-still-long-term-threat\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1212178590.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Top US general in the Mideast says ISIS in Iraq and Syria still long-term threat<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">While no longer a major security threat, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said ISIS is never going to be defeated unless the international community can address the indoctrination of refugees displaced by years of war.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid significant other international priorities, including taming the coronavirus pandemic and stepping up the fight against climate change, the coalition is hoping to stabilize areas liberated from IS, repatriate and hold foreign fighters accountable for their actions and combat extremist messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinken and Di Maio urged representatives of the 77 other countries and five organizations that make up the coalition not to drop their guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe must step up the action taken by the coalition, increasing the areas in which we can operate,\u201d said Di Maio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21179481497009.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21179481497009.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21179481497009.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21179481497009.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21179481497009.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21179481497009.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Secretary of State Antony Blinken, accompanied by Italy&#8217;s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, right, speaks during a news conference at Fiera Roma in Rome, Monday, June 28, 2021. (Andrew Harnik\/Pool via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Outside of Iraq and Syria, he said there was an \u201calarming\u201d surge in IS activity, particularly in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/03\/10\/efforts-to-combat-violent-extremist-groups-in-sahel-region-are-not-getting-the-job-done-says-africom-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Sahel<\/a>, Mozambique and the Top US general in the Mideast says ISIS in Iraq and Syria still long-term threat. He called for the coalition to create a special mechanism to deal with the threat in Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinken noted that despite their defeat, IS elements in Iraq and Syria \u201cstill aspire to conduct large-scale attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTogether, we must stay as committed to our stabilization goals as we did to our military campaign that resulted in victory on the battlefield,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/03\/10\/efforts-to-combat-violent-extremist-groups-in-sahel-region-are-not-getting-the-job-done-says-africom-leader\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6101350.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Efforts to combat violent extremist groups in Sahel region are \u2018not getting the job done,\u2019 says AFRICOM leader<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cI do believe that if ISIS can carve out a new caliphate, or al-Qaida can, they will attempt to do it in West Africa,\u201d U.S. Africa Command commander Army Gen. Stephen Townsend said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinken announced a new U.S. contribution of $436 million to assist displaced people in Syria and surrounding countries and called for a new effort to repatriate \u2014 and rehabilitate or prosecute \u2014 some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/02\/05\/us-calls-for-repatriation-of-foreign-fighters-held-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">10,000 IS fighters who remain imprisoned<\/a> by the Syrian Defense Forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis situation is simply untenable,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cIt just can\u2019t persist indefinitely.\u201d However, no countries present made any new commitment to repatriating their citizens and it was unclear if the number of detainees could be reduced in any significant way in the near-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinken also announced sanctions against Ousmane Illiassou Djibo, a native of Niger, who is a key leader of the Islamic State affiliate in the greater Sahara. Djibo was designated a global terrorist, meaning that any of his U.S. are frozen and Americans are barred from any transactions with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the meeting on IS, foreign ministers of countries concerned about the broader conflict in Syria met in Rome ahead of a critical U.N. vote on whether to maintain a humanitarian aid corridor from Turkey. Russia has resisted reauthorizing the channel amid stalled peace talks between the Syrian government and rebel groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two senior U.S. officials said Blinken told the Syria conference that the U.S. believes the corridor must be reauthorized and expanded to prevent more deaths. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to publicly discuss the private diplomatic conversations, said Blinken made clear that any U.S.-Russia cooperation on Syria would be dependent on Moscow agreeing to the extension. Russia, however, wasn\u2019t present at the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the U.N. special envoy for Syria, Geir Pederson, said there were worrying signs that the Islamic State may be getting stronger in the country and called for a boost in cooperation to counter it. Pederson has also joined calls for new international talks on ending Syria\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011, numerous high-level gatherings aimed at ending the fighting and guiding the country to a political transition have failed. The U.N., U.S., Russia and many other countries support a 2015 Security Council resolution endorsing a road map to peace in Syria that calls for a new constitution followed by U.N.-supervised elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinken, who also met with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and President Sergio Mattarella on Monday, hailed the state of U.S.-European relations, noting that Italy, France and Germany \u2014 the three countries he visited on his current European tour \u2014 are the only members of NATO, the Group of Seven and the European Union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe share a deep commitment to promoting democracy and human rights,\u201d he said. \u201cWe see the same big challenges on the horizon. 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