how come ISIS is never in the news now?

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are they all done for, they had such a massive social media presence and regular updates but vanished into thin air, not like i’m missing them.

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  1. hellshot8 Avatar

    theyre mostly gone

  2. doc_daneeka Avatar

    They were effectively crushed by a whole coalition of countries that had had enough of their shit. They aren’t dead, but they’re very much on life support compared to a decade ago.

  3. Iocnar Avatar

    They were just yesterday actually. They said they’re gonna recruit all the palestinian kids.

    As I vaguely recall.

  4. WorldTallestEngineer Avatar

    They haven’t done anything new or significant in a while.  Unorganized warlords ruling over  sparsely populated desert territory aren’t going to make front page news.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State

  5. roughcutgem Avatar

    because they’re WASWAS now

  6. Nickppapagiorgio Avatar

    They were in the news for three things.

    -1. They defacto became an actual country for awhile with a government, taxes, trash collection, power generation etc. They did this at the expense of the territory of 2 existing countries recognized by the rest of the world. Forcibly changing borders doesn’t happen that often post ww2 and will get news attention.

      1. They committed a ton of horrific human rights violations as well as openly engaging in the slave trade. They also liked to record those abuses. I don’t recommend going and looking for them, but you used to be able to find their videos more easily, and they were incredibly barbaric. That will get attention.
      1. They used their territory as a launch pad to launch terrorist attacks on the west, primarily in Europe. That will get attention as well

    All 3 of these things led to an overwhelming military response. By the time you are being bombed by the US and Russia simultaneously, something has gone horribly wrong in your diplomacy. They’ve simply had none. They lost all their territory which limited their ability to video tape horrific acts, and launch terrorist attacks. They still exist, but they’re more an underground organization now, like Al-Qaeda after the US invaded Afghanistan.

  7. SltLt Avatar

    they are zionists.

    they can show and disappear like zionist lies propaganda.

    the worst terrorists in the world are the israeli zionist state.

    the world will need to face them at some point in the future.

    they own usa.

    all contributors money are spent in zionist wars.

    you know. we all know.

  8. Oblargag Avatar

    They got their asses handed to them with the globe watching.

    Top leadership getting blasted from the sky on a regular basis doesn’t do well for recruitment numbers

  9. martinis00 Avatar

    Not their turn in the cycle. Right after murder hornets return

  10. New-Handle610 Avatar

    I guess the families they left behind are stuck in camps / prisons as repatriation efforts are slow and challenging….

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/07/northeast-syria-camp-detainees-face-uncertain-future

  11. kamilionn Avatar

    ISIS > Israeli secret intelligence service.. if u know u know 😉

  12. kaesura Avatar

    Isis got defeated in Iraq and Syria. So they are left with a few deadenders who attack local governments, but have no ability to do large scale attacks on the west. Biggest issue is a 40K detention camp in sdf controlled syria with 95% of it’s detainees being women and children. That needs to be handled better.

    But, ISIS proper is no longer a real danger to the west. No ability to plan attacks or hold real territory. There are an occasional ISIS attack in the West, but those nowadays are from disturbed people who self radicalize on old media material. If it wasn’t ISIS, they would have chosen another terrible group to claim loyalty to.

    Now, there is an Isis regional branch, Khorasan, in central asia that’s still dangerous. Were behind the 2021 kabul airport bombing and the Crocus Music Hall attack in Russia. Both incidents killed over a hundred people each. But ISIS-K hasn’t had a successful attack on the West , meaning that it’s profile is lower. Most of it’s activities are attacking the Taliban.

    Also ISIS in Sahel is fairly big but activities are local to africa. press really doesn’t pay attention to conflicts in africa.

    In general, terrorists groups have become more localized with less interest in the attacking the west verus their local governments. usa/europe is also great at finding and killing those who have international ambitions, incentizing them more to focus on their own countries, where the usa cares far less.

    so the biggest danger to the west for terrorism are losers who self radicalize and pick isis has their cause.

  13. Desperate_Owl_594 Avatar

    ISIS used terrorism as propaganda. Their financial system was dismantled, and their infrastructure was neutered.

    They still exist, but mostly in West Africa, specifically Nigeria and its surrounding areas.

  14. apachelives Avatar

    A bigger terrorist is in charge now

  15. Successful-Ground-67 Avatar

    I think they ran out of fighters and weapons. Initially they were armed with much of the Saddam Hussein built arsenal. The American invasion spent zero time locking down these arms caches. Once these weapons and ammunition ran out, they lost the ability to overrun regions like they used to.

  16. stuthaman Avatar

    The Dems were the ones that contracted them to kick up some dust occasionally so ‘Merika could launch some bored armed forces at them.

  17. grateful2you Avatar

    They pissed off EVERYONE. That works in propaganda – “we’ll conquer everyone”. But it was a huge strategic mistake. And they’re mostly defeated now. They left no room for local support, no room for support from other similar organizations, made theatrics making sure that they were the bad guys.

  18. Far_South4388 Avatar

    According to SDF most of the Isis fighters they imprisoned, those they didn’t summarily kill upon capture, they released after a debriefing because mostly they were forced to fight because a family member was kidnapped.

  19. xxiii1800 Avatar

    They are called WasWas now

  20. yuvalco Avatar

    More like vanished into pink mist

  21. No_Mercy_4_Potatoes Avatar

    Cause the American propaganda machine doesn’t need ISIS to destroy the next country.

    This is Hamas Hezbollah and Houthi propaganda time, so they can invade Iran next.

  22. Due-Resort-2699 Avatar

    They were bombed into oblivion. There are still scattered remnants , but ISIS as a cohesive structured fighting force was destroyed after the Battles of Mosul and Raqqa

  23. PandaBroth Avatar

    They say to dismantle a terrorist organization is to keep targeting their leadership. When you keep taking out their number 1 and 2s of an organization and they had to keep replacing faster than they could train them, eventually you get to the point where they may have the name but no longer the know how to run an effective terror network.

  24. ModeloAficionado Avatar

    ISIS got turned into WASWAS

  25. whoopercheesie Avatar

    They’re so 2015

  26. WillNotReplyToIdiots Avatar

    They discovered that God wasn’t of any use.

  27. the42thdoctor Avatar

    Remember when they say Obama bombed thousands of people and still won the Nobel Peace prize? A majority of them were Isis people 

  28. Orribleget Avatar

    They don’t need to be active, america is destroying itself.

  29. Tales_From_The_Hole Avatar

    “vanished into thin air”

    Many of them were literally blown into thin air.

  30. ThroawayJimilyJones Avatar

    They got crushed. As simple as that.

    A few pocket still subsist in the desert, or undercover, but they are weak enough for most of the world to stop caring

    They also probably broke down due to the constant change of direction (due to leaders dying).

    In some place they also got replaced by local islamist movements, with more local priorities.

  31. FatPoorandCommon Avatar

    Israel doesn’t need them to take blame for something right now 

  32. vapemyashes Avatar

    Ass was kicked

  33. Glittering_Virus8397 Avatar

    They go by other names now

  34. Zatujit Avatar

    They’re pretty much dead

  35. highfalooting14 Avatar

    Maybe we are our own worst enemy now?