If indeed they were or are, and they (US) know their location exactly (and since they (US) are the preeminent self-proclaimed champions of freedom against terrorists and terrorism), why not they go in there at once and finish them all off, as they did in Afghanistan??!
The US's flippant description of the Hamas militant group as a "terrorist" organization is naught but fraught with contradiction, misleading and disingenuity.
We must remember how the Second World War started, according to certain sources.
The First World War had ended but the victorious Powers began levying overbearing costs upon Germany. Look how it ended!
When one war ends, we must not fall onto another!
The solution to the crisis in the Middle East is not to clamp down on, or attempt to clamp down on, the development of all or certain of the neigbouring Muslim states.
It is in finding the courage and the discernment, proper judgement, to broker a much more honest, peaceful,