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Jun 28, 2024 · The Secret History of ISIS (2016) How was ISIS’s founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, once a small-time criminal, able to build a brutal terrorist organization that would destabilize the Middle East...
Jun 25, 2024 · A decade after Isis atrocities were front-page news — with large attacks in Europe, the beheading of journalists and the enslavement of thousands of women and girls, mostly from the Yazidi...
2 days ago · The following is a list of major terrorist attacks and arrests that have been connected to or have been claimed in reliable sources to be inspired by the Islamic State (IS), also known by other names.
6 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. By November 2017 the group was considered effectively defeated.
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Jun 9, 2024 · June 09, 2024. The rise and fall of ISIS, 10 years on. Featuring: Hamzeh Hadad. Source: The National. Journalists: Aveen Karim, Robert Tollast, Sinan Mahmoud. Hamzeh Hadad, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says that brief moment of unity defied many expert predictions that Iraq would permanently fragment.
Jun 17, 2024 · ISIS staged attacks that killed scores of Syrian government soldiers in June. The ISIS attacks are a sign of the weakness of the Assad regime and the factions fighting it.