WASHINGTON, DC: In a campaign that spanned five years and two US presidencies, unleashed more than 100,000 bombs and killed untold numbers of civilians, the US military engineered the destruction of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed empire in Iraq and Syria.

That’s a military success, but not necessarily one that will last.

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