hannah allam has been reporting from iraq for the last two weeks.he has been there for years covering iraq. her most recent peace talks about how baghdad residents are trying to maintain a semblance of normal life as the conflict approaches baghdad. we will also be joined by patrick cockburn, just back from iraq. this is democracy now! back in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. , whouests are hannah allam is in baghdad, and patrick cockburn joins us from london, middle east correspondent for the independent and just returned from 10 days of reporting in iraq and has a new book just coming out called, "the jihadis return: isis and the new sunni uprising." patrick, you and your latest piece say that as much as the world attention is focused on the bombardment of gaza, that isis has captured much of eastern syria. can you explain? caliphate declared to recently has just gotten a lot bigger. and rather amazingly, the world hasn't paid much attention becaus