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3 days ago · Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), transnational Sunni insurgent group operating primarily in western Iraq and eastern Syria.First appearing under the name ISIL in April 2013, the group launched an offensive in early 2014 that drove Iraqi government forces out of key western cities, while in Syria it fought both government forces and rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War.
Oct 28, 2019 · Jan. 3: A German man is charged with murder, belonging to a terrorist group and committing war crimes after taking part in the execution of six ISIS detainees in Palmyra, Syria in 2015. Jan. 4: Egyptian police arrest four people in connection with the bombing at Cairo’s Coptic Christian cathedral that killed 28 people in December 2016.
Nov 30, 2018 · November 30, 2018. Updated at 10:20 a.m. ET on January 7, 2019. Most historians of the Islamic State agree that the group emerged out of al-Qaeda in Iraq as a response to the U.S. invasion in 2003 ...
Iraq and Syria continue to see the most IS attacks, but the group is active in many other countries.
An Islamic state has a form of government based on sharia law. As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. [1] As a translation of the Arabic term dawlah islāmiyyah ( Arabic: دولة إسلامية) it refers to a modern notion associated with political Islam ( Islamism ).
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 ...
Jun 13, 2014 · Formed in 2013, ISIS is a jihadi Salafist militant group. It is virulently anti-democracy and sectarian – and also a seasoned militant operation with a transnational membership, to which ...
