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On the Front Line Against ISIS: Who Fights, Who Doesn’t, and Why
THE FACE OF BATTLE
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
Artis Research
Published
Apr. 19 2016
1:00AM EDT
Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty
Scott Atran
Artis Research
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