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The Islamic State of Iraq ( ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the Iraqi insurgency. The organization aimed to overthrow the Iraqi federal government and establish an Islamic state governed by Sharia law in Iraq .
Beginning primarily in 2017, as the Islamic State lost more swathes of territory and lost control over major settlements and cities, the group increasingly resorted to more terror bombings and insurgency operations, using its scattered underground networks of sleeper cells across regions in the Middle East and various offshoots and adherents.
Timeline of terrorist incidents. Category. v. t. e. The ideology of the Islamic State, sometimes called Islamic Statism, has been described as being a hybrid of Salafism, Salafi jihadism, [1] [2] Sunni Islamist fundamentalism, [3] Wahhabism, [4] [5] and Qutbism.
Jul 10, 2017 · The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—also know as ISIS or ISIL—is a jihadist militant group and terrorist organization that formed in 1999.
Dec 2, 2015 · The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) burst on to the international scene in 2014 when it seized large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. It has become notorious for its brutality,...
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.
Jun 13, 2014 · 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, formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad and Al-Qaeda...
