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How ISIS Returned to Syria

Proxy War

After nearly a decade of sponsoring jihad in next-door Iraq, Assad lost a third of his country to the same proxies.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

This is the final chapter in a groundbreaking investigation by Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter Roy Gutman that documents Bashar al-Assad’s sinister contributions to the creation of the so-called Islamic State.

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