National security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that the Islamic State remains a threat and that it is “growing in other parts of the world” besides Syria and Iraq. The statement by Bolton in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” is at odds with claims by President Trump and Vice President Pence that the militant group, which is also known as ISIS, has been defeated. “He has never said that the elimination of the territorial caliphate means the end of ISIS in total. The ISIS threat will remain.”The White House has delivered mixed messages on the matter. The ISIS threat, the al-Qaeda threat, the terrorist threat is an ideological threat worldwide, and it’s something that I think we have to be vigilant against for the foreseeable future,” he said.

Source: Washington Post March 10, 2019 15:27 UTC