Emile Hokayem, the Bahrain-based IISS Senior Fellow for Middle East Security, author of Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant and co-editor of Middle Eastern Security, the US Pivot and the Rise of ISIS, assessed the international coalition’s strategy against ISIS and explained why the jihadi movement is likely to remain an enduring feature of the Middle Eastern landscape.
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