- Lela Gilbert
- December 18, 2019
- Paper No. 1375
October 27, 2019 marked the death of infamous โCaliphโ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Once his demise had been confirmed, optimistic media voices asserted that the last chapter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had been written. The western world very much wants to believe we are living in a new, post-ISIS era. But are we?