The Invisible Front of Islamic Terrorism

... present shape is not viable in the long term. Having challenged Western countries, it has doomed itself to defeat – just as al-Qaeda did in its time. However, there are now between 30,000 and 35,000 foreign fighters in Islamic State who will return to their countries and try to continue to fight their own governments as part of small Islamist ... ... Afghanistan and now in Syria and Iraq, the world community is trying to extinguish the most obvious and serious manifestations of Islamism. However, very little has been done to effectively counter Islamist ideology and the vision of statehood (Caliphate)....