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By islamic state, so called. In this programme, i want to look at the way the world has changed during my 50 years as a foreign correspondent. And we are in iraq because its played such an important part in my career. Its easy to assume that bad news is the only news, but my experience has been rather different, as well see. With our Cameraman Sitting in front and our security adviser driving, we are getting near mosul now. There, it looks pretty recent, actually, doesnt it . Until a few days ago, this territory was held by islamic state. Craters were made by ieds roadside bombs. Islamic state...

Based. for a few years going back to 2014 in june, when isis took over mosul, the second largest city in iraq, there was a feeling that they were unstoppable, that they were fighting armies that were corrupt and basically incompete incompetent. i was in iraq as they were taking one major iraqi city after another while they were expanding in syria as well. so the removal of that certainly has led many to breathe a sigh of relief. however, the problem is that the fertile soil upon which isis grew and thrived is still there, and that is the autocratic regimes that spread across the middle east th...