Solcyré Burga
Nearly seven years after ISIS lost the last piece of its territory following a years-long battle, two high-profile terror attacks inspired by the group within the space of a weekend have demonstrated its resilience.
On Saturday, two United States Army soldiers and an American civilian interpreter were killed in an attack near Palmyra, Syria, that U.S. officials and the Syrian government have blamed on an ISIS-linked infiltrator.
The next day, two men killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more in an attack on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, which Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese later said appeared to have been inspired by ISIS.
"It would appear that there is evidence that this was inspired by a terrorist organization, by ISIS," Albanese said at a Tuesday press conference. "Some of the evidence which is being procured, including the presence of Islamic State flags in the vehicle that has been seized, are a part of that."
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