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The Underground Caliphate

Three years on from when Isis fighters stunned the world when in 2014 they swept across the Syrian border into Iraq and seized second largest city, Mosul, declaring a cross border Islamic caliphate, the Iraqi Government declared the ISIS had been defeated and ejected from the country.
However, the reality is much less clear-cut than the administration has claimed.

Journalist Simona Foltyn has travelled out into the Iraqi countryside where she found a terrified population living in fear of insurgent ISIS groups who are using gangster tactics to re-establish their hold on them while government forces fail to protect the people or even actively

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