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Black Standard (variant) The Military of the Islamic State is the fighting force of the Islamic State (IS). The total force size at its peak was estimated from tens of thousands to over two hundred thousand. IS's armed forces grew quickly during its territorial expansion in 2014.
Sri Lankan Cops Arrest 'Handler' Of 4 ISIS Terrorists Caught In Gujarat
After the arrests of four suspects by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) for having links with terrorist outfit ISIS, Sri Lanka launched a high-level investigation with ...
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Iraq's Sinjar Remains In Ruins Even A Decade After ISIS Horrors
When Bassem Eido steps outside his modest village house in Iraq's Sinjar district, he is reminded of the horrors that befell the majority-Yazidi region during the ISIS group's ...
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- The Making of Isis
- Isis and Sharia Law
- One Group, Many Names
- Isis News and Video Brutality
- Isis Terror Acts
- Assaults on Historical Sites
- Isis Funding
- War Against Isis
- Sources
The roots of ISIS trace back to 2004, when the organization known as “al Qaeda in Iraq” formed. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was originally part of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda Network, founded this militant group. The U.S. invasion of Iraqbegan in 2003, and the aim of al Qaeda in Iraq was to remove Western occupation and replace it with a Sunni Islamis...
ISIS rule spread quickly throughout Iraq and Syria. The group focused on creating an Islamic state and implementing sharia law—a strict religious code based on traditional Islamic rules and practices. In 2014, ISIS took control of Falluja, Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq, and declared itself a caliphate, which is a political and religious territory ruled ...
Throughout its existence, ISIS has been called several names, including: ISIL: This acronym stands for “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.” The Levant is a broad geographical region that includes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israeland Jordan. Some experts believe the ISIL label more accurately describes the objectives of the militant group. IS:The...
ISIS became recognized around the world for carrying out heinous acts of violence, including public executions, rapes, beheadings and crucifixions. The group has earned an nefarious reputation for videotaping brutal killings and displaying them online. One of the first widely publicized acts of ISIS violence happened in August 2014, when a few of t...
ISIS has also claimed responsibility for hundreds of terrorist attacks in the Middle East and around the world. Some of the most well-known attacks on Western soil that were linked to ISIS include: 1. November 2015, Paris Attacks: In a series of attacks, bombers and shooters terrorized the streets of Paris, killing 130 people. 2. December 2015, San...
Since about 2014, members of ISIS have destroyed numerous historical sites and artifacts throughout Iraq, Syria and Libya. The group claims cultural monuments, statues and shrines are idolatrous and shouldn’t be worshipped. However, several news investigations have revealed that ISIS has sold and profited from many of these artifacts. Some of the c...
ISIS has been called the richest terrorist organization in the world. While estimates vary, the group was said to have made $2 billion in 2014 alone. Much of ISIS’s money has come from seizing control of banks, oil refineries and other assets in the territories it occupies. The group has also used kidnapping ransoms, taxes, extortion, stolen artifa...
In response to ISIS violence, various countries—including the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, several Arab nations and other countries—have initiated efforts to defeat the terrorist group. In 2014, a U.S.-led coalition started airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. That same year, the Pentagonannounced a program to tr...
Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s Financial Fortunes: International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. Here Are the Ancient Sites ISIS Has Damaged and Destroyed: National Geographic. What is ‘Islamic State’?: BBC. Islamic State group: The full story: BBC. Al-Qaeda disavows any ties with radical Islamist ISIS group in Syria, ...
Mar 23, 2019 · The next year Isis overran large parts of Iraq, proclaimed its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph, and became known as "Islamic State". ... A US-led global coalition - comprising 74 nations ...
Feb 3, 2022 · A military analyst, Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a military fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations in New York and a former spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, said one of the ...
Jul 28, 2022 · More than three years after its military defeat in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is a downgraded threat thanks to the collective efforts of the U.S.-led global coalition that coalesced to defeat it along with Iraqi and Syrian partners. While the extremist group’s capacity has been drastically reduced and millions of people have returned home, ISIS has managed to continue attacks year after year despite no longer holding territory. Meanwhile, some of the most difficult human legacies — the ...
Sep 9, 2020 · Summary Assessment of ISIS. The full quarterly Operation Inherent Resolve report for April 1, 2020-June 30, 2020 is 113 pages long, and it covers all of the aspects of the U.S. military and civil fight against ISIS. However, even if one ignores the portions that deal with the challenges posed by cutting U.S. forces, the need to create effective ...
Nov 5, 2023 · Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand ...
