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Analysis: The final collapse of Daesh exposes the abject failure of UK foreign policy
18:40 pm
Not only is British and US foreign policy responsible for the rise of the so-called Islamic State group, but it is now breeding the conditions for future chaos
THE Daesh group (or the so-called Islamic State) has finally been crushed, by and at enormous cost to local populations, as it makes its last stand in Baghuz on the Euphrates river near the Syria-Iraq border.
At its height Daesh's would-be 'caliphate' stretched over 34,000 square miles and established brutal rule over eight million people across parts of Iraq, Syria and Kurdistan.