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When Isis comes home

20 October 2016

2:00 PM

20 October 2016

2:00 PM

The Islamic State’s pretence to nationhood was based on the holding of territory. With the battle for Mosul this week, together with the loss of the land that it controlled in Syria, that pretence is becoming harder to maintain. The area involved is now limited to a few shattered cities, and corridors between them.

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