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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.

Roy Gutman

Published Dec. 5 2016 1:03AM EST

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Roy Gutman

Roy Gutman

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