"It's not just the numeric decline," said Daniel Milton, director of research at the
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and the author of the new report. "The caliphate was their big selling point. Now there's an inability to say we're doing the things that make us a state. And that was behind their broad appeal."..."
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