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Islamic State - the basics

Ruth Tarrant

6th March 2016

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There has been a sudden online splurge of short snippets of useful facts and background information on Islamic State in the last week or so. As an excellent starting point, this BBC news 90 second "round up" examines who is in control of IS.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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