A U.S. military report released this week suggests the ISIS terrorist group will operate in the Middle East “indefinitely,” describing the group now as a “low-level” terrorist threat about seven years after the organization took over swaths of Syria and Iraq in the backdrop of the Syrian Civil War. ISIS was ousted from its strongholds in Syria and Iraq about two years ago, but, according to a Department of Defense quarterly report (pdf), the group still attempts to exploit weaknesses in the region. U.S. Central Command, the report found, stated that “ISIS likely has sufficient manpower and resources to operate indefinitely at its present level in the Syrian desert” but that environment “limits the capacity of ISIS to grow or strengthen its insurgency there” as the desert is sparsely populated with few possible recruits. ISIS members currently shelter in caves and abandoned buildings, said the military. Currently, the terror group extracts …