The Islamic State regains strength in Syria
The Islamic State showed renewed vigor in Syria, attracting fighters and increasing The attacks, according to the United Nations and the US officials, are added to the volatility of a country still around the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.The group is not yet as strong as a decade ago, when it controlled Eastern Syria and most of the northern Iraq, but there is a risk, the experts say, that the Islamic State can find a way to free thousands of hardened fighters who are held in prisons supervised by Kurdish Syrian forces supported by the United States.A serious rebirth of the Islamic State would undermine a rare moment when Syria seems to have the opportunity to go beyond a brutal dictatorship. But it could also reverberate in a wider way, spreading instability through the Middle East....