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By Rachel Elbaum. The Islamic State, or ISIS, is a militant organization that emerged as an offshoot of al Qaeda in 2014. It quickly took control of large parts of Iraq and...
- Isis Anniversary
The black borders delineate where ISIS has formally...
- Paris Terrorist Attacks in November 2015
ISIS fanatic found guilty of murder and terrorism in 2015...
- Isis Anniversary
One Group, Many Names Throughout its existence, ISIS has been called several names, including: ISIL: This acronym stands for “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.”
The group itself has not used that name since June 2014 when it declared the creation a caliphate and shortened its name to "Islamic State" (IS) to reflect its expansionist ambitions.
The name of the Islamic State has been contentious since 2013. In Arabic, the group called itself al-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fī al-`Irāq wa al-Shām ( الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام ), which it adopted in April 2013. The literal translation of its previous name resulted in confusion, resulting in both ISIS and ...
It's simply an abbreviation for "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria," but there's some confusion, since the extremist group often uses many other names, including the Islamic State,...
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...
The terrorist group now calls itself Islamic State, but the many names by which it is known reflect both its own evolution and the deliberate choices others make in how they refer to it.
