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4 days ago · An Isis assault on a Moscow concert hall in March killed 143 people. This month six inmates linked with the group took hostages at a prison in southern Russia and were shot dead. France said the ...
1 day ago · Ten years ago, the terrorist group known as ISIS stunned the world when it seized wide swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared its own caliphate. By the time territory from that self ...
1 day ago · Also known as Isis or Daesh in Arabic, the group took over huge swathes of Syria and Iraq, imposing its severe version of Shariah (Islamic law), meting out cruel punishments and murders, then ...
3 days ago · Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), transnational Sunni insurgent group operating primarily in western Iraq and eastern Syria. First appearing under the name ISIL in April 2013, the group launched an offensive in early 2014 that drove Iraqi government forces out of key western cities, while in Syria it fought both government forces and ...
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13 hours ago · Caggins said that the U.S.-led coalition’s “military advice and assistance” to Iraq Security Forces, Kurdish Iraqi fighters and the SDF “is essential to maintain dominance against ISIS remnants as well as securing more than 10,000 ISIS detainees at makeshift jails and camps in Syria.” ___ Mroue reported from Beirut.
3 days ago · Expansion and declaration of a caliphate. in Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Also known as: Dāʿish, Daesh, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, al-Dawlah al-Islāmiyyah fī al-ʿIrāq wa al-Shām. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2 days ago · ICE agents arrest 8 people with suspected ISIS ties 02:18. Washington — Federal agents apprehended eight men from Tajikistan — a Central Asian nation that borders Afghanistan — because they ...
