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The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations. Such designations have often had a significant effect on the groups' activities.
Feb 4, 2022 · Syrians gather at the scene of a raid by US special operations on February 3, where ISIS' leader killed himself. Just two days after the leader of ISIS killed himself during a US raid in northern ...
Dec 2, 2015 · 2 December 2015. AP. 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 ...
Feb 3, 2022 · The raid against the terrorist leader, identified by ISIS as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was months in the planning, the officials said. An unspecified intelligence tip placed him in the ...
ISIS is a Salafi-jihadist group that has conducted and inspired terrorist attacks worldwide, resulting in thousands killed or injured. In 2004, an Iraqi extremist network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi merged with al-Qa‘ida to form ISIS’s predecessor group, al-Qa‘ida in Iraq (AQI), which Zarqawi led until his death in 2006.
Sep 25, 2014 · The group began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before rebranding as ISIS two years later. It was an ally of – and had similarities with -- Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda: both were radical anti ...
Dec 2, 2015 · Other media have continued to use "Isil" or "Isis", which is based on the other widely used translations of the group's former name - "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" or "Islamic State in Iraq ...
