Thinking the Unthinkable: Coming to Grips with the Survival of the Islamic State
‘The king is dead, long live the king’
Reports that self-declared caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, was seriously wounded in a coalition strike in early 2015 has done little to weaken the group as it fights multiple battles in Iraq and Syria. The Islamic State (IS), despite news reports that Al-Baghdadi was paralyzed in the at…
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