{"id":33179,"date":"2019-02-25T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33179"},"modified":"2019-02-25T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:27:05","slug":"is-it-all-over-for-isil-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33179","title":{"rendered":"Is it all over for ISIL in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL<\/a> or ISIS) once controlled an area stretching from western Syria<\/a> to eastern Iraq<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0nearly the size of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

It proclaimed a caliphate in 2014 and imposed its harsh rule on millions of people. But it was flushed out of Iraq and eventually lost most of its ground in Syria.<\/p>\n

What is left of the group now is confined to a tiny part of the Syrian village of Baghouz, with fighters vowing a battle to the death.<\/p>\n

The United States<\/a>-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of mainly Kurdish fighters, has launched an offensive to retake the ISIL’s last village.<\/p>\n

So, if ISIL is cleared out of its final urban foothold, will the threat from the armed group be over? And where will its fighters go?<\/p>\n

Presenter:<\/strong> Elizabeth Puranam<\/p>\n

Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mohammed Masbah – Director at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis<\/p>\n

Yusuf Alabarda – Security analyst at SETA<\/p>\n

Macer Gifford – Human rights activist and anti-ISIL campaigner<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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