They could get worse if they don't come up with methods of adequate governance for areas liberated from ISIS in both Syria and Iraq. They could get better, however, if the government is okay and Baghdad's rule in the Sunni areas isn't too oppressive, and if the Kurdistan region doesn't go into the areas that it has newly acquired area and turn out to be too aggressive. If they start delivering services and some local power to the communities there, then I think you could conceivably see a dramatic turnaround on those issues, because I think in the end people are just not so different from people in Canada. They just want a way forward and a future that promises them an improvement over what they've been living in the past. It doesn't have to be a jihadi way forward or a radical nationalist way forward. They want to live as well as they can and as free as they can.
On November 15th, 2016. See this statement in context.