They're just the other side of the low mountain range to the south which stretches all the way across to Palmyra. But it's difficult to shrug off the lethargy. Surely the old shepherd sitting with his back to the road, two cows tethered beside him, isn't worried about the war. Can the children playing with their mother behind a red-painted house have the slightest idea why there's a Syrian army checkpoint down the road at Jibl Jarrah, the very last bit of territory before the forward troops of the shrinking Isis caliphate?
The great geopolitical battles in Iraq seem far away until you notice the contrails sweeping the skies far above Jibl Jarrah and the military map in the local company headquarters which depicts three bleak grey and black circles to the right. "South al-Mushairfeh, east Habra, west Habra" are written in them. Isis holds these villages to this day.
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