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articles/2016/04/19/on-the-front-line-against-isis-who-fights-who-doesn-t-and-why/160410-atran-deep-inside-isis-tease_oqrmwb
THE FACE OF BATTLE

We’ll Never Defeat ISIS Like This

An in-depth report on the inconclusive battle to take one small village exposes the weakness of the strategy to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city.

Scott Atran

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