Why the Most Dangerous Group in Syria Isn’t ISIS
February 26, 2016 - Jennifer Cafarella![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/CNN%20Op-Ed%20by%20Jennifer%20Cafarella%20--%20February%2026%202016%20page%201_1.png?itok=pPsHSudx)
(CNN) Hardly a day goes by without news of the progress being made in the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria. In recent months, American-backed forces have secured much of the Syrian-Turkish border, recaptured Ramadi, and stemmed the flow of fighters and supplies to the terror group's capital cities of Raqqa and Mosul.