While absolutely necessary, the U.S. assassination of al-Qaida’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri will no doubt only contribute further to the resurgence of al-Qaida and Islamic State (IS), rather than weaken them. These groups will likely coalesce into one entity under the leadership of the Taliban.
In the absence of a comprehensive strategy to counter the ideological source of these factions, the names will simply continue to change as their brutality evolves.
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