You might find this report at Al-Monitor interesting. TL;DR: it’s down but not out.
Not unlike COVID-19 radical religion-inspired violence is endemic in Islam among Arab populations and has always been so unless forcibly suppressed by local, mostly foreign authorities, e.g. the Turks. I would further argue that will always be the case with any sola scriptura sect without a magisterium (it’s based on a holy book, the individual decides the meaning of the holy book, and there is no authoritative office saying that interpreting that book as encouraging violence is not valid).
Furthermore our interests in the Middle East are largely limited to Europe’s dependence on Middle Eastern oil and Israel which I contend are not really U. S. interests at all.
