On the peak of the Islamic State’s energy, the territory the group managed in Syria and Iraq was across the measurement of Britain. However by early 2019, following airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition and an assault by a Kurdish-led fighters in opposition to the group’s remnants in jap Syria, U.S.-backed forces declared the ultimate defeat of the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Later the identical yr, the group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, died throughout a U.S. army operation in Syria.
However whereas the world’s consideration has moved on, the group and its offshoots within the Center East and elsewhere have continued to strike targets, together with a 10-day assault on a jail in Syria in 2022.