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Hamza Elbaf has been shut off from the outside world for the past five years. The Australian citizen doesn't even know who the prime minister is. He's one of thousands of suspected ISIS fighters ...
ISIS was born in 2006 in Iraq, under the name “Islamic State in Iraq,” amid a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis following wars led by Saddam Hussein and the American invasion. The Mujahideen...
Current and former Google and Amazon workers protesting Project Nimbus say it makes the companies complicit in Israel’s armed conflicts and its government’s illegal and inhumane treatment of ...
The name Isis is a girl's name of Egyptian origin meaning "throne". Isis has gone from magical, feminist name on the rise to the forbidden list because of the extremist terror group called ISIS, an acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
The map above shows the areas the ambitions terrorist organization ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) aspired to control by 2020. The map labels various regions with historical names significant in Islamic history. Here’s an overview of each area mentioned on the map and its historical connection to Islam: Andalus :
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), transnational insurgent group based in western Iraq and eastern Syria. Originally an affiliate of al-Qaeda, ISIL declared the establishment of a caliphate amid significant territorial gains in 2014. By November 2017 the group was considered effectively defeated.
ISIL’s quick advances in Iraq alarmed the international community and set off a political crisis in Baghdad that ultimately led to the toppling of Maliki. Calls for international intervention increased, and on August 8 the United States launched air strikes in Iraq to prevent ISIL from advancing into the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
