ISIS in Syria: Canadian wives and former subjects speak
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ISIS in Syria: Canadian wives and former subjects speak

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Eastern Syria CNN — Her face covered by a black veil, with just a slit for her eyes, Dura looks like dozens of other black-clad women clustered on blankets with their children, all former subjects of ISIS’s crumbling caliphate in Syria. Come and see.” “You were studying the Middle East and didn’t know anything about ISIS?” I asked, puzzled. You don’t feel like you’re in a war.” “But hadn’t you heard all the stories of people having their heads cut off, of mass executions?” I asked. “No,” he answered, adding “that’s exactly what the American intelligence people asked me. There are many people from Chechnya.” “It’s strange,” I said, “that you find a Chechen in Baghouz Al-Fawqani, isn’t it?” I ask.

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