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Read the following sources from the New York Times online:

• Rukmini Callimachi, "How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze," New York Times, 26 March 2016, http://nyti.ms/22JDnCV (Links to an external site.)
  
• Rukmini Callimachi, "The ISIS Files," New York Times, 4 April 2018, https://nyti.ms/2H7OCND (Links to an external site.) 

Then answer the following questions:

1. Summarize key challenges mentioned in the articles that Western and Middle Eastern states are facing in the fight against ISIS.
2. Describe the way ISIS ran its proto-state? How effective was it? Discuss.
3. Provide some structural or systemic policy recommendations that would help address the ISIS phenomenon in the West as well as in the Middle East.

Your analysis should be between 800-1,000 words. Use the following headings:

Introduction

Challenges in the fight against ISIS

ISIS proto-state structures and governance

Recommendations to face the ISIS phenomenon in the West and Middle East