Islamic State’s messianic apocalypse is postponedIslamic State’s messianic apocalypse is postponedBut the defeat of the jihadist group may revive realism among Sunnis THE fate of a small rural town in northern Syria might seem inconsequential when faced with a multinational assault on the group’s main stronghold, Mosul. But few places were more central to the image of Islamic State (IS). The jihadists lauded Dabiq as the locus, as cited in an ob
