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Aleppo after barrel bombing one of its residential areas

ISIS and the Politics of the Middle Ages

by Julia McClure on September 12, 2014

This week the Guardian reporter Kevin McDonald took issue with Nick Clegg’s description of ISIS as “medieval”. McDonald reported: ‘given the extreme violence of Isis fighters and the frequent images of decapitated bodies, it is

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