US facing more scattered, more technological terror landscape

Washington - Leading terror groups like al-Qaida and Islamic State, once pushed to the brink after years of military pressure from the United States and its allies, have found ways to recover and once again represent a serious and lethal threat, according to a top U.S. counterterrorism official.

The rare public assessment from the acting director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center comes just days before