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Feb 2022
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‘A ticking time bomb’: what a prison bre...

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IS might have been defeated on the battlefield, but the terror group still has the capacity to shock and its threat is far from over, says Martin Chulov. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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