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The origins of the Islamic State group can be traced back to three main organizations. Earliest of these was the "Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād" ( transl. "The Organisation of Monotheism and Jihad") organization, founded by the Jihadist leader Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi in Jordan in 1999. The other two predecessor organizations emerged during ...
The Islamic State – Khorasan Province [a] ( ISIS–K, IS–K, IS–KP) is a regional branch of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State (IS) active in South-Central Asia, primarily Afghanistan and Pakistan. ISIS–K seeks to destabilize and replace current governments within historic Khorasan region with the goal of establishing a caliphate ...
Oct 28, 2019 · At its height, the Islamic State - also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh - held about a third of Syria and 40 percent of Iraq. By December 2017 it had lost 95 percent of its territory, including its two biggest properties, Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, its nominal capital. The following is a timeline of the rise, spread and and fall of the Islamic State.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi had disputed such assertions in 2014, arguing that "ISIS has a record of fighting the regime on multiple fronts", many rebel factions have engaged in oil sales to the Syrian regime because it is "now largely dependent on Iraqi oil imports via Lebanese and Egyptian third-party intermediaries", and while "the regime is ...
Contents. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (April 2013 – October 2019) Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri ( Arabic: ابراهيم عواد ابراهيم علي البدري, romanized :ʾIbrāhīm ʿAwād ʾIbrāhīm Alī al-Badri; 28 July 1971 – 27 October 2019), commonly known by his nom de guerreAbu Bakr al ...
Kurdish-led war. Rojava is a major theater in the war against the Islamic State in Syria. During the Syrian Civil war, Kurdish forces led by the People's Protection Units (YPG) took control of Northern Syria and launched campaigns to take control of the Islamist-controlled areas.
IS-IS or ISIS, a network routing protocol. ISIS/Draw, a chemistry modelling program. Softcard or Isis Mobile Wallet, a mobile payment system. Unity ISIS, a storage device. Integrated Scientific Information System, software programs including the MDL Chime plug-in. ISIS, a variant of the JOSS programming language.
