Coverage of so called Islamic State (IS), as with the reporting of the jihadi threat in the “war against terror” in general, continues to be confused, even in the hands of the most effective practitioners. The extremists' loss of control over their caliphate is not being ignored but the story is being constantly obfuscated by a lingering determination to buy into a frame of terror exactly echoing their hyperbolic rhetoric.

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对所谓的伊斯兰国 (IS) 的报道，就像报道“反恐战争”中的圣战威胁一样，仍然令人困惑，即使是在最有效的从业者手中。极端分子对他们的哈里发失去控制并没有被忽视，但这个故事不断被一个挥之不去的决心所掩盖，因为他们决心购买一种与他们夸张的言辞完全相呼应的恐怖框架。