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A man in Tokyo's Ginza district reads an extra edition of a newspaper, which reported ISIS' claim to have beheaded Japanese journalist Kenji Goto on February 1, 2015.

The ‘ultra-violent death cult’ at the heart of ISIS

Conflict

ISIS moves may not make much practical military or political sense, but that violent illogic may be part of the group’s appeal to recruits. And despite their errors, they don’t appear to be on the verge of defeat any time soon.

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