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ISIL or ISIS? Why the world can’t decide

By Gideon Lichfield @glichfield June 18, 2014

When a bunch of extremists seem about to take control of one of the Middle East’s largest countries, you’d think we’d have better things to do then argue about what they’re called. But the world’s media seem stubbornly divided about what name to give the jihadist movement currently overwhelming Iraq.