US Commander: ISIS Threat in West Syria Growing

US Commander: ISIS Threat in West Syria Growing
Then-Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington, on April1 14, 2018. Alex Brandon/File/AP Photo
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WASHINGTON—Elements of the ISIS terrorist group are working to rebuild in western Syria, where the United States has little visibility or presence, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East warned on Wednesday.

In the region west of the Euphrates River where the Syrian regime is in control “conditions are as bad or worse” than they were leading up to the rise of the ISIS, said Gen. Frank McKenzie. “We should all be concerned about that.”