ISIS continues to operate in various parts of the world, but is no longer a military force that dominates the territory as it was during the "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria - according to Western intelligence sources.
Today, the organization is focused on building a global ideological network, designed to recruit supporters and encourage the carrying out of small, isolated and unpredictable attacks. The perpetrators of the attacks are defined in intelligence jargon as "lone wolves" - individuals who act independently, inspired by messages and instructions published by the organization on the Internet.
The head of the British domestic security service, MI5, Ken McCallum, warned a few months ago about the developing threat, saying that "terrorism grows in the dirty corners of the Internet, where toxic ideologies of all kinds meet the volatile and chaotic lives of many individuals."
Last weekend, three young men were arrested in Toronto, Canada, on suspicion of stalking Jewish women on the streets of the city, with the aim of kidnapping and assaulting them. One of them, Waleed Khan, 36, has also been charged with terrorism offences linked to ISIS, Toronto police said.