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  1. www.theatlantic.com › ideas › archiveHow Did ISIS Really Emerge? - The Atlantic

    Nov 30, 2018 · The groundwork for ISIS was arguably laid long before the invasion, and if there was one person responsible for the group’s modus operandi, it was Abdulrahman al-Qaduli, an Iraqi from...

    • Hassan Hassan

      What ISIS Did to My Village As someone who studies the...

  2. theconversation.com › explainer-what-is-isis-andExplainer: what is ISIS and where did it come from?

    Jun 13, 2014 · The second city of Mosul and the major city of Tikrit have been seized by a violent jihadist group, ISIS – the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad...

    • Peter Shirlow

  3. www.wilsoncenter.org › article › timeline-the-riseTimeline: the Rise, Spread, and Fall of the Islamic State

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    2004: Abu Musab al Zarqawi establishesal Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). June 7, 2006: Zarqawi is killedin a U.S. strike. Abu Ayyub al Masri takes his place. Oct. 15, 2006: al Masri announcesthe establishment of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), with Abu Omar al Baghdadi as its leader. 2007: Following the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq, ISI is drivenfrom Baghdad...

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    March 4: Raqqa falls to the Syrian opposition, and secular opposition groups, the Nusra Front, and ISI are all operating in Raqqa. ISI begins moving military assets to consolidate control and break into new battle fronts in Syria. April 11: Baghdadi moves from Iraq to Syria, and claims that the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) merged with the Nusra Fron...

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    January: ISIS takes over Raqqaand declares it the capital of the ISIS emirate. Feb. 3: Al Qaeda officially cuts ties with ISIS. June 10: ISIS takes over Mosul, launching its largest offensive to date. Militants kill at least 600 Shiite inmates from the Badoush prison during the attack. June 11: ISIS militants take over Tikrit. June 12: Iran deploys...

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    Jan. 7: Two gunmen, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, attack the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 11 people. A third assailant, Amedy Coulibaly, carried out a synchronized attack on a kosher supermarket, taking hostages and killing four people. Coulibaly reportedly declared allegianceto the Islamic State. Jan. 26:Kurdish...

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    Jan. 12: A suicide bomberwith links to ISIS kills 10 people and injured 15 others - many of them German tourists - in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square. Jan. 14: ISIS claims responsibility for an attack in Jakarta, Indonesia, that killed at least two people and injured 19 others. March 18: Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted suspect in the Paris attacks, i...

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    Jan. 1: The Islamic State says it carried out a bomb attack on the Syrian coastal city of Tartous and killed two security officers, accordingto an online statement by the group. ISIS gunmen attackan Iraqi police checkpoint near Najaf, killing seven policemen. Jan. 1-2: A gunman opens fire at a nightclub in Istanbul, killing at least 39 people. The ...

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    Jan. 17: U.S. troops will remain in Syria even after their fight against the Islamic State is over, to counter Iran and Bashar al Assad in Syria, according to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. “ISIS has one foot in the grave, and by maintaining an American military presence in Syria until the full and complete defeat of ISIS is achieved, it will so...

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    January 17: Islamic State’s West Africa branch carries outa large-scale raid in northeastern Nigeria, overrunning internally displaced person camps and displacing over 8,000 people. February 1: SDF forces lay siegeto the village of Baghouz, the last enclave held by ISIS in eastern Syria, but delay their assault to allow civilians to evacuate. More ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Islamic_State_of_IraqIslamic State of Iraq - Wikipedia

    Islamic State of Iraq traces its origins to Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (JTJ) group, which was formed by the Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Jordan in 1999. Al-Zarqawi led the group, until his death in June 2006.

  5. www.nytimes.com › 2019/03/20 › worldThe Evolution of ISIS: From Rogue State to Stateless Ideology

    The Islamic State traces its roots to Al Qaeda in Iraq, an offshoot of the terrorist group that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The Iraqi affiliate started an insurgency...

  6. www.vox.com › 2015/11/19 › 9760284ISIS, a history: how the world's worst terror group came to be

    Nov 19, 2015 · Foreign fighters and extremists began moving into Iraq, assisted by Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, which sought to bog down the US. Zarqawi and his group were among them.

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  8. www.cnn.com › 2016/08/12 › middleeastHere’s how ISIS was really founded | CNN

    Aug 12, 2016 · The group’s roots are in the Sunni terror group al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), started in 2004 by Jordanian Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It was a major player in the insurgency against the...