Raqqa, destroyed houses on the front line in the Al Dariya neighborhood, Syria, 24 July 2017.Morukc Umnaber/ Press Association. All rights reserved.
Thank you for your letter and I am really sorry that it is seven months since I last wrote to you (see "Letter from London, not Raqqa", 4 November 2017). As you will have seen this is my second letter from London rather than from Raqqa, and the signs are that I will be working here for some months to come, perhaps even years.
Thank you also for asking after my brother. I have not received news of him recently though I think I know where he will be going next. This is because I have heard from a reliable source that our leaders have decided to improve connections with our associates in Egypt as they work to extend our influence beyond Sinai where it is already strong. As you know, two of our current areas of expansion are the Sahel and Egypt and while progress has been good in the Sahel, Egypt is actually far more important.
