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The Islamic State has emerged out of all this as a winner, and it seems it has just started. If the group regains ground in the north, that will be the single most important achievement of the group inside Syria in months, something that might make it even more resilient. The Islamic State is still struggling between two strategies—the old strategy, imported from its experience in Iraq, of showing zero tolerance to not only rivals but potential rivals, and a new strategy of trying to win over people rather than using just force, a strategy that the group has seemingly picked up from Jabhat al-Nusra. The Islamic State’s ability to shield itself from a popular uprising will depend on which strategy will prevail.
full: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2014/07/14/islamic-state-in-syria-back-with-vengeance/hfto
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