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Islamic State Returns to Guerrilla Tactics as It Loses Territory

(Wall Street Journal) Raja Abdulrahim - Islamic State "will come to an end militarily and geographically, but its sleeper cells will continue operating," said Nuri Mahmud, a spokesman with the Kurdish YPG militia, the main component of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. "There are lots of sleeper cells." "The attacks that we have been seeing, and especially the attack that we saw yesterday in Manbij [that killed four Americans] indicates that Islamic State has the reach to carry out quite sophisticated attacks," said Columb Strack, an analyst at Conflict Monitor. "And they have the intelligence structure in place to identify targets....They're targeting the U.S. and Kurdish forces now and eventually the target will become the Syrian government."

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