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'Caliphate' or not, Islamic State group expands its reach
[AlAhram] The group is "building and retaining a cellular structure which allows it to carry out terrorist attacks," a US military expert said

In the two years since Kurdish forces wrested away the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
's last Syrian bastion, the jihadist group has proved it does not need a stronghold to pose a potent threat in more countries than ever.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-21
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