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Radio Scotland,7 mins

The Underground Caliphate

Good Morning Scotland

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Three years on from when Isis fighters stunned the world when in 2014 they swept across the Syrian border into Iraq and seized second largest city, Mosul, declaring a cross border Islamic caliphate, the Iraqi Government declared the ISIS had been defeated and ejected from the country. However, the reality is much less clear-cut than the administration has claimed. Journalist Simona Foltyn has travelled out into the Iraqi countryside where she found a terrified population living in fear of insurgent ISIS groups who are using gangster tactics to re-establish their hold on them while government forces fail to protect the people or even actively

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