9 foreign policy issues the Trump administration will have to face
THE HANDOFF | This is part of a series examining the foreign policy challenges President-elect Donald Trump will inherit and how he might approach them. Read more.
Jan. 11, 2017
As Donald J. Trump prepares to take office, the Islamic State is on the defensive in three countries and has been all but wiped out in another. Military and diplomatic officials believe that a tactical defeat of the militants, at least in their major strongholds, is only a matter of time. But tens of thousands of fighters remain, and the group is already showing signs of reinventing itself once again as a potent terror movement.
