WASHINGTON, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Pentagon said Thursday the footprint of the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan had been "significantly decreased," but warned that the extremist group still had the potential to be an "enormous threat."
"We do think that they (IS) are being contained more than they probably were last fall," said Charles Cleveland, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, at a Pentagon briefing held here. "Again, our concern with them is that they've got the ability to regenerate very quickly, and they've got the ability to catch fire, as we've seen in other places."
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