Why ISIS is relying on ‘Mad Max’-style propaganda

Published December 28, 2018 8:42pm ET



Creating space and inducement toward weaponized sectarianism, President Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria offers the Islamic State its renewal. But while most ISIS fighters have now gone covert, hiding back home or in Syrian and Iraqi settlements, some overt ISIS operations continue.

Enter this video on Twitter via Syrian conflict observer @RisboLensky. Taken from an ISIS propaganda newscast, the video shows an ISIS skirmishing attack on the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces. It apparently occurred just north of the Euphrates river on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border.

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