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With its enemies distracted, Isis makes a swift and deadly comeback

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US drone strike 'kills 14 Isis militants in Afghanistan'

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Isis releases new recording of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

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Is IsIs in crisis? Syrians who once supported Islamist extremists repulsed by their brutality

The very foundations of the caliphate appear to be crumbling. Territories once enjoyed by the "Islamic State", and brutally enforced public support are, perhaps for the first time, under serious threat.