A view of a part of western Mosul during the battle to remove Isi from the city taken on 29 May 2017 REUTERS
The Independent: Isis will become 'al-Qaeda on steroids' after defeat, warns top official
Following the loss of its territory, Isis will morph into an insurgency that will resemble "al-Qaeda on steroids", the most senior anti-terrorism official in Iraqi Kurdistan has said.
While the group was defeated in Mosul earlier this month, effectively spelling the end of the Iraqi half of its so-called caliphate, the battle against the militants could take another three or four years in total, Lahur Talabany said in an interview with Reuters.
The fight for the group's last urban stronghold of Raqqa over the border in Syria is underway, but is also expected to be long and bloody.
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Update: ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Is Not Dead and Will Turn Group Into 'Al-Qaeda on Steroids' -- Newsweek
WNU editor: The Islamic State will not only continue to exist in Iraq and Syrian, but it also has a base of support that can easily make it a global terror group for a very long time .... With global jihadis, Islamic State group has built-in staying power (Japan Times/AP).
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