BBCNEWS After The Caliphate February 8, 2020
The strongholds and and the fight was ferocious and a close quarter. The american Led Coalition unleashed bombardments not seen since the second world war. In the world watched the Islamic State group fall. The black flag was captured. The caliphate was conquered. A broken and cowered army of local and foreign jihadists, who either surrendered, or died here. Despite the onslaught, some of them escaped. But this was a Family Enterprise and in their haste, they left behind their wives and their children. And a promise to return. Almost one year on, the leader dead and an empire lost. But where h...