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Iraq: What is ISIS?

Iraq: What is ISIS?
Published 12 Jun 2014   Follow @SamRoggeveen

A two-minute explainer from the New York Times on the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the group that now controls two Iraqi cities: Mosul, the country's second largest, and now Tikrit, from which 500,000 residents have now fled.

(H/t Sullivan.)



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