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Tough situation: Displaced Iraqis from the embattled city of Fallujah waiting for water supply at a camp where they are taking shelter, some 30km on the southern outskirts of the city in Amiriyiah al-Fallujah. — AFP

HOW is success against terrorism to be measured or even defined? Is there a common measure that works? It concerns the scale of achievement against the terrorist purpose.

The purpose of Islamic State (IS), the transnational terrorist scourge of all nations, communities and faith groups, is creating a bloody alternative state based in Iraq and Syria.

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