A comprehensive history of ISIS based on insider accounts and secret communications few outsiders have seen

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In The Believer, Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS), a group so brutal and hardline that even a