Amy Goodman
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Live Report From Baghdad: Despite Threat by ISIS, Life in Iraqi Capital Feels "Deceptively Calm"
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12:59Now PlayingIraq remains on the verge of splintering into three separate states as Sunni militants expand their stronghold in the north and west of Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared itself a caliphate last month and now controls large parts of northern and western Iraq and much of eastern Syria. Recent advances by ISIS, including in the city of Tikrit, come amidst leaks revealing extensive Pentagon concerns over its effort to advise the Iraqi military. Iraqi politicians, meanwhile, are scrambling to form a powersharing government in an effort to save Iraq from splintering into separate Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish states. Democracy Now! speaks with Hannah Allam, foreign affairs correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, who is reporting live from Baghdad. Her latest article is called, "Life in Baghdad goes on despite the new threat of ISIS." "For a country on the verge of collapse, the capital feels deceptively calm," Allam says. "So far, [Iraqi forces] haven't made really any military gains in the north to recapture some of the territory that ISIS seized. ... At best, they are only fending off further encroachment."
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