IRAQ: Reduced foreign fighter role in Sunni insurgency
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- AQI prospects
- Weakened
- Dormant
- Terminal decline
- Identifying trends
- Attacks claimed by foreign-led groups
- Suicide attacks
- AQI leadership losses
- Foreign fighter recruitment
- Interdiction of funding
- Shifts in deployment
- Northwards shift
- Rural dispersal
- Decentralisation and fragmentation
- Reduced foreign role
- Stable drivers
- Implications
- More manageable insurgency
- Sunni political participation
- Some international blowback
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