Blinken says the number of ISIS fighters and family members being held at detention camps in Syria is ‘untenable’

ROME — More than two years after they last met in person, top diplomats representing the 78-nation coalition to defeat the Islamic State gathered here Monday to assess what has happened in the interim and position themselves for the future. The news, in many respects, was not good.

While the caliphate in Syria was declared dead in 2019, “there is still more work to be done,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his global counterparts as he opened the meeting co-hosted by the United States and Italy.