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Dec 2, 2015 · Islamic State (IS) is a radical Sunni Islamist militant group that has seized large swathes of territory in eastern Syria and across northern and western Iraq.
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More than 10,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed...
- The Long and Short Story
The next year Isis overran large parts of Iraq, proclaimed...
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The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is to be dissolved, while Islamic State in Iraq is to continue its work. Jabhat Al-Nusra is an independent entity for Qaedat Al-Jihad group, under the (al-Qaeda) general command. The seat of the Islamic State in Iraq is in Iraq.
Aug 10, 2016 · The self-proclaimed Islamic State is a militant Sunni movement that has conquered territory in western Iraq, eastern Syria, and Libya, from which it has tried to establish the...
- Zachary Laub
Apr 18, 2018 · The Islamic State, or ISIS, is a militant organization that emerged as an offshoot of al Qaeda in 2014. It quickly took control of large parts of Iraq and Syria, raising its black...
- Rachel Elbaum
5 days ago · Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), transnational insurgent group based in western Iraq and eastern Syria. Originally an affiliate of al-Qaeda, ISIL declared the establishment of a caliphate amid significant territorial gains in 2014.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
An Islamic state has a form of government based on sharia law. As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. [1] As a translation of the Arabic term dawlah islāmiyyah ( Arabic: دولة إسلامية) it refers to a modern notion associated with political Islam ( Islamism ).
