The State Department on Monday released details of its most recent meeting of representatives of what it calls the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL — the Islamic State terrorist group.
While trumpeting progress in weakening the group, the department acknowledged that the al Qaeda offshoot, also known as ISIS, continues to recruit large numbers of suicide bombers for its attacks.
Islamic State "continues to produce scores of suicide bombers every month and it is poised to fight until the death in the territory that it continues to hold," the department said in a readout of the latest meeting with ambassadors and officials from 68 countries. Still, coalition military, intelligence and law enforcement efforts have inflicted what the State Department called a "significant degradation to ISIL’s global network."
