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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.
- Al-Qaeda in Iraq
al-Qaeda in Iraq, militant Sunni network, active in Iraq...
- Al-Qaeda in Iraq
A decade on, the self-declared ISIS caliphate across Syria and Iraq is a dark and distant memory, but the pain is raw in Eido's largely abandoned village of Solagh, 400 kilometres (250 miles ...
The following is a list of conflicts involving the jihadist militant group known as the Islamic State (IS/ISIL/ISIS/Daesh), throughout its various incarnations. The group controlled portions of territory in Iraq and Syria in the mid-2010s and has taken part in many attacks, battles and wars.
List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State. Attacks done by ISIS as a group. Attacks inspired by ISIS. Terror attacks committed or inspired by IS as of March 2024. Part of a series on the. History of the. Islamic State. Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (1999–2004) Al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004–2006)
The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria forced the United States to send the troops back in 2014. In 2018 the United States succeeded in defeating ISIS. US combat operations in Iraq ended in 2021, and Iraq is now led by Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al Sudani. While the current Iraqi government is heavily influenced by Iran, Iraq is still sufficiently ...
May 28, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ET. Iraqis have known the bitter taste of war so intimately and frequently over the past 40 years that they say they can feel viscerally the suffering of Palestinians in ...
In 2015, a bomb at a marketplace, later claimed by ISIS, in the town killed 130 people. The situation in the province, sometimes described as a “mini-Iraq” due to its mix of Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni communities, remains tense amid the ascendancy of Iran-backed militias linked to the government in Baghdad.
