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IS & Taliban: the next phase

In the past week, the Iraqi Army has broken through so-called Islamic State’s defences and reached Tal Afar, one of the terror group’s last remaining strongholds in the country. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, Donald Trump announced that the US would be sending thousands more troops to prop up the on-going war against the Taliban, while his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has spoken of a negotiated peace as an acceptable prospect. Is this the start of a new phase in the war on terror?

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