Governance, social justice key in fight against terrorism

Five years of attacks by the world’s largest armies were needed to take out one of the most ruthless and extreme regimes in human history. Since its establishment in June 2014, ISIS has ethnically cleansed and enslaved minorities, raped countless women, beheaded journalists and massacred so-called “infidels,” recruited thousands to its diabolical army of terror which was guilty of what the UN concluded were crimes against humanity.

The relentless attacks by the powerful 79 partners in the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS, and parallel interventions by Russia and Iran, have brought about liberation of the last civilians and nullification of the so-called caliphate in the Middle East after five years.