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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the Emir of ISI after the death of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. On 7 April 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi re-designated ISI as the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL), officially announcing the group's expansion into Syria and its intention to absorb the Al-Nusra Front.
This article is about the ancient Egyptian goddess. For the modern extremist group commonly abbreviated as ISIS, see Islamic State. For other uses, see Isis (disambiguation). Isis [Note 1] was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.
In 2014, ISIL proclaimed itself a worldwide caliphate and changed its name to the Islamic State which in a year grew to control territory with a population of millions. On 27 October 2019, the Islamic State's "caliph" killed himself to avoid capture. [2]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Islamic State, (IS) is a Islamist militant group. In Arabic it is often called the phrase "Daesh" but it is disliked by the group which causes enemies of the group to use the phrase.
Jul 10, 2017 · ISIS goes global: 143 attacks in 29 countries have killed 2,043: CNN. The ISIS Chronicles: A History: The National Interest . How an arrest in Iraq revealed Isis’s $2bn jihadist network:...
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 flag in...
Jun 13, 2014 · Iraq is facing its most alarming crisis in years. The second city of Mosul and the major city of Tikrit have been seized by a violent jihadist group, ISIS – the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ...
