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Declassified report shows US predictions of IS group threat

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about a counterterrorism raid carried out by U.S. special forces that killed top Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in northwestern Syria, Feb. 3, 2022, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) FILE - President Joe Biden talks with National Counterterrorism Center Director Christy Abizaid during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Va., July 27, 2021. This is Biden's first visit to an agency of the U.S. intelligence community. President Joe Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. “The fact of those operations are, I think, reflective how serious this threat environment remains," Christy Abizaid. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - In this image provided by The White House, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and members of the President's national security team observe from the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, on Feb. 2, 2022, the counterterrorism operation responsible for removing from the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the Islamic State group. Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP, File) FILE- Lebanese police special forces stand next to a table where an Islamist State group flag, explosive belts, various weapons and explosives confiscated by police intelligence from Islamic State group suspects are displayed, during a press conference at the Lebanese police headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 23, 2022. A newly declassified U.S. intelligence report predicted in 2020 that the Islamic State group was likely to regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist movement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)