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How IS rose to power in Iraq

Interview: Neil KingDecember 18, 2015

Reuters correspondents Ned Parker and Isabel Coles have released a special report on how the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" controls the people and how former Iraqi Baathists from the Saddam Hussein regime have contributed to the terror apparatus. DW speaks to Parker about how this - at first glance - unlikely alliance of Islamist terrorists and secular Baathists has developed over the years.

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