Post-Daesh Challenges for Europe
Journal: Horizon Insights
Year: 2018

Daesh is about to lose the whole territory it holds in Syria and Iraq once as big as the UK. The Salafi jihadist organization, ruling over 6 million population with an army of 30.000 in 2015, had benefited from sectarian and ethnic tensions and imposed its ideology to recruit and attract more than 40.000 foreign terrorist fighters from across the globe. The question that keeps busy most European capitals currently is; “What awaits Europe after Daesh loses all territory it controls?” The answer t