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Islamic State

Features and Analysis

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  From the shadows

  As Islamic State (IS) seeks to expand the territory under its control in Iraq and Syria, Paul Wood charts the rise of jihadists.
   
• Short-term gain?

• IS battles need resolve

• 'Adapt or die'

• Phoney war

• 'Prisoners in Mosul'

• Stopping foreign recruits

• Fuelling conflict

• Khorasan threat

• Coalition weaponry

• Is force legal?

• Beaten and starved

• Warning from Raqqa

• Fertile ground

• Reasoned case

• Air power not enough

• Battle in maps

• Who to trust

• IS in 60 seconds Watch

Profiles

• What is Islamic State?

• Khorasan Group

• 'The new caliph'

• Profile: David Haines

• Profile: James Foley

• Profile: Steven Sotloff

Backgrounders

• Key countries

• IS violence

• Who supports IS?

• 21st-Century caliphate

• World's biggest crises

Video

• IS strategy 'should include Syria' Watch

• Caliphate in 90 seconds Watch

• Can Mid-East defeat IS? Watch

• Retired Peshmerga fighters Watch

From other news sites

• The Guardian Nigeria Civilians flee IS street-to-street fighting 45 mins ago

• The Independent Isis fighters in Kobani: Civilians flee as militants enter Syria-Turkey border town 1 hr ago

• Auto.ru.msn.com IS jihadists seize parts of key Syrian town 4 hrs ago

• Irish Independent NATO ready to defend Turkey from Isil attack 7 hrs ago

• The Scotsman Isis banner ominously raised over European gateway 8 hrs ago