[AnNahar] "The caliphate is here to stay": in the last town it controlled in Syria, the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group is little more than a slogan on a broken storefront and a dark memory.
Hajin has been largely leveled but reminders of jihadist rule remain on those walls that still stand amid the mounds of rubble and mangled construction iron rods.