A long-feared Islamic State resurgence may arrive in 2023, military officials and national security insiders warn, as a perfect storm of dangerous conditions appears to be brewing across the Middle East and Africa that could pave the way for the group’s second coming as a major terrorist force and threat to global stability.
It would be a remarkable resurgence for a terror group whose “caliphate” once controlled a broad swath of land in Iraq and Syria only to be routed by a U.S.-led counterterrorism campaign.
Specialists say that the Islamic State, better known as ISIS, is almost surely plotting a deadly revenge campaign against the U.