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Sep 3, 2019 · The U.S., its European allies, and its Strategic Partners in the Middle East achieved a significant victory in breaking up the ISIS protostate – or “caliphate” – in Syria and Iraq. This break up has sharply reduced the fighting against ISIS in Iraq, and in Eastern Syria. The U.S.-led Coalition did not, however, fully defeat ISIS in ...
Mar 28, 2018 · In 2013, the group began seizing control of territory in Syria and changed its name to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis or Isil). The following year, Isis overran large swathes of ...
Mar 23, 2019 · In 2013, ISI began seizing territory in Syria and changed its name to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis/Isil). The next year Isis overran large parts of Iraq, proclaimed its leader Abu ...
Aug 10, 2016 · With Iraq weakened and a civil war raging in Syria, it’s unclear whether local forces and a U.S.-led international coalition can roll back the self-proclaimed Islamic State. ... remain in ISIS ...
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 ).
The War in Iraq was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State.Following December 2013, the insurgency escalated into full-scale guerrilla warfare following clashes in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in parts of western Iraq, and culminated in the Islamic State offensive into Iraq in June 2014, which lead to the capture of the cities of Mosul, Tikrit and other cities in western and northern Iraq by the Islamic State.
The fight against ISIS continues in Iraq and Syria despite political turbulence in Baghdad, regional tensions and a global focus on other conflicts. While the jihadi insurgency has weakened in reach and intensity, and senior ISIS leaders have been arrested or killed, regular incidents are a reminder that the extremist group remains active.
