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Fighters from the self-declared Islamic State parade through Raqqa, Syria, in June 2014.

We talked about advances by the so-called Islamic State in Ramadi, Iraq — including discussing how involved the United Stated is and what the strategy should be — with Paul Kinsinger, professor at the Thunderbird School at ASU and a former member of the U.S. Intelligence Community.