Terror threat

Generation ISIS: The Western Millennials Stocking the Terror Army

Angry, committed, and ever younger ISIS recruits keep flowing into Syria, despite the Obama administration’s year-long campaign to target ISIS and tighten regional laws and borders against militants.

Like a clenched fist trying to hold water, the U.S.-led coalition is struggling to getmultiple bureaucracies to move in unison to hold back the wave of 1,000 fighters a month into Iraq and Syria.

The coalition is also trying to compete with the so-called Islamic State’s popularity by building a creative, coordinated international network of community groups, technology companies, and media hipsters. That’s a tall order for any government bureaucracy that is by its nature the opposite of the organic and spontaneous movement it’s trying to foster.