AP News Guide: Instability set to follow IS collapse

FILE – In this July 11, 2017 file photo, airstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the Old City a day after Iraq’s prime minister declared “total victory” in Mosul, Iraq. IS, the ultra-extremist group responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in recent history, is on the verge of collapse. The group that brutalized residents living under its command for more than three years is fighting to hang on to remaining pockets of territory in Iraq and Syria, besieged by local forces from all sides. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)