In early February, President Biden announced that ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi was killed in a U.S. special forces raid in Syria. Qurayshi’s death is a critical flashpoint in the resurgence of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Middle East, particularly in Syria where the political stalemate and unrelenting violence have generated, beyond incalculable internal suffering, regional threats from chemical weapons to Iranian missiles and extremist groups.