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The psychological devastation happening to all of these children for whom

that level of violence is as common as, you know, for us walking down the street and seeing

a taxi cab or something is just terrifying. It's an Islamic militant organization that relies on suicide bombings and public executions and even torture to keep people in line and grow its

borders. It's also a functioning country of a kind responsible for education and

even taking care of the garbage.

If you haven't guessed it this week on War College,

we look at the so-called Islamic State

and what it's like to live there.

You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict focusing

on the stories behind the front lines. Here's your host, Jason Fields.

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I'm Reuters opinion editor Jason Fields.

And I'm Matthew Gault with War is Boring.

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