THE dramatic rise of the Islamic State organisation formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) and its proclamation of a so-called caliphate portend a new and more brutal face of global jihadism.
The organisation may not espouse al-Qaeda’s global militant agenda; nevertheless, it is terribly wrong to compare the group with the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban.
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