ISIS REMAINS A THREAT: The latest quarterly report to Congress by the Pentagon’s Office of the Lead Inspector General says that while the Islamic State remains unable to hold territory, the group can still mount small-arms attacks and continues to wage a “low-level insurgency” in both Iraq and Syria.

“In Iraq, these attacks were concentrated in mountainous and desert provinces north and west of Baghdad,” writes acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell, who was just appointed to the post last month. “In Syria, the majority of attacks occurred in Dayr az Zawr, Hasakah, and Raqqah provinces.”