TY - BOOK AU - BINNIE Jeremy TI - Annual Defence Report 2017: Middle East & Africa PY - 2018/// KW - COTE D'IVOIRE KW - EGYPT KW - IRAQ KW - QATAR KW - SAUDI ARABIA KW - SYRIA KW - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES KW - YEMEN N2 - The Islamic State has had a bad year, having lost almost all of its territory in Iraq and Syria by November. However, despite the collapse of their self-declared 'caliphate', the Sunni extremists will continue their campaign of violence by returning to insurgent and terrorist tactics, feeding on anti-Shia sentiment and opposition to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad UR - http://janes.ihs.com/Janes/Display/FG_690861-JDW ER -