Is ISIS Back? Actually, It Never Left the Building

A man stands in front of the ruins of a shop looted and burned during a recent attack by an ISIS-affiliated group in Nzenga, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 24, 2021. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images

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In the wake of yet another foiled ISIS-inspired terrorist plot, this one by a Canada-based Pakistani seeking to kill Jews in New York on the anniversary of last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, everyone is loudly proclaiming: “ISIS is back.”