ISIL: Rising power in Iraq and Syria

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ISIL: Rising power in Iraq and Syria

The most dramatic news of the week: Iraq is being taken over by a group that Al-Qaeda once deemed too radical. A bit of context.


From Weekly Filet #164, in June 2014.

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