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ISIL territorial claims The core of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's territory was from 2014 until November 2017 in Iraq and Syria, where the organization controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory. ISIL also controls land in Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, Egypt, and possibly Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group also has insurgent cells in Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, the Caucasus, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia that do not control territory. As of October 2017, ISIS still holds 10,210 km 2 of territory in Iraq and Syria, according to the US-led coalition against ISIS. In early 2017, ISIL controlled approximately 45,377 square kilometers (17520 square miles) of territory in Iraq and Syria and 7,323 km 2 of territory elsewhere, for a total of 52,700 km 2. This represents a substantial decline from the group's territorial peak in late 2014, when it controlled between 100,000 km 2 and 110,000 km 2 of territory in total.
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- The Americans say the fight against ISIS is far from over in Syria, even though the group has been expelled from all urban areas, like Manbij, which the Americans and their Syrian allies cleared in the summer of 2016.
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MAPPED: Terrifying growth of ISIS in just ONE year...and how Asia & Russia is next target The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group have gained control of large swathes of land The world was largely unaware of the evil organisation until last year when it declared a so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
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ISIS: The first terror group to build an Islamic state? The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has thrived and mutated during the ongoing civil war in Syria and in the security vacuum that followed the departure of the last American forces from Iraq. The aim of ISIS is to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and in Syria.
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What is ISIS: Islamic State explained and their sick aim to destroy the West An ISIS fighter waves a flag on a captured government flag in Raqqa, Syria, 2015. The Islamic State is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Explainer: what is ISIS and where did it come from? 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, despite heavy losses, it is constantly recruiting.
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How did ISIS form? When and where did ISIS begin? ISIS takes root in Iraq & Syria. By 2011, when the U.S. troop withdrawal was complete, AQI was being run by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and had morphed from a largely foreign to a largely Iraqi operation. Baghdadi himself, as his name suggests, is local.ut its power base is in Raqqa, eastern Syria, where ISIS is now in control of more than half of Syria's oil assets -- along with a number of oil fields in Iraq -- according to energy expert Luay al-Khateeb.
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- Iraqi and Kurdish forces have reclaimed more than 25 percent of ISIS-held territory inside Iraq, according to a U.S. assessment that also determined that Kurdish fighters are responsible for the majority of the territory retaken from ISIS in northern Iraq.
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- It just never stops with these people. The federal government is now claiming that ISIS is going to invade the United States from Mexico – and yet this concept was not presented in connection with a plan to close the border.
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- U.S. Military: 'We're Seeing Younger (ISIS) Fighters, Perhaps Adolescent' in Mosul. In this Oct. 24, 2016 file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces prepare to attack Islamic State positions in the village of Tob Zawa, outside Mosul. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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- Rainforests Photos. Interviews. Most of the animal species found in the rainforest are invertebrates, including insects, arachnids (such as spiders and scorpions), and worms. Amazingly, about one quarter of all animal species that have been named and described by scientists are beetles.ainforest insects. Rainforest invertebrates come in an incredible array of sizes, ranging from organisms that can sit on a pinhead to the goliath beetle of Africa, which can weigh nearly a quarter of a pound (110 grams).
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ISIL territorial claims The majority of ISIL-controlled territory is in eastern Syria and western Iraq, in addition to isolated pockets elsewhere in the countries. The majority of the terrorist group's territory, population, revenue, and prestige come from the territory it holds in Iraq and Syria.
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- Another group, the activist collective of Deir el-Zour, also reported the seizure. The field is in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour, near Iraq, and it followed ISIS' seizure of Syria's largest oil field on Thursday. Both oil fields were taken from other rebel groups.
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ISIS comes to Libya No. A city on the coast of the Mediterranean, in Libya. Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
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- http://youtu.be/shHKbPK9c9U. According to a monitoring group and local activists, ISIS did gain some new ground in Syria early Friday, seizing an eastern oil field as they try to consolidate their control of an area along the length of the Euphrates river stretching through Syria and Iraq.
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ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Daesh: What's The Difference? ISIS: The militant group, which began as the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda during the U.S. occupation, gained this name after it invaded Syria in 2013. ISIS is short for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which is an old Arabic term for the area. ISIL: ISIL translates to “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.” The Levant is a geographical term that refers to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean -- Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Jordan.
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Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga ask UK for help against Isis chemical attack Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga ask UK for help against Isis chemical attack. Battle for Mosul, designed to end the Isis caliphate in Iraq, expected to begin as early as middle of this month. Soldiers wait at Mount Zertik as peshmerga forces attack Isis positions with howitzers in Mosul, Iraq, on 2 October. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
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ISIS Lost Almost 10 Percent of Territory: Report Print |. A A. The Islamic State group (ISIS) saw its territory in Iraq and Syria shrink almost 10 percent in the first six months of the year, as recent victories in Palmyra and Ramadi were outweighed by “significant” losses elsewhere, a report said.
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- Abū Bakr al-Baghdādi (Arabic: أبو بكر الب غدادي ‎) is the leader of theIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as ISIS, an Islamic extremist group in western Iraq, Libya, northeast Nigeria, and Syria. It is believed that he has been proclaimed by his followers to be a caliph
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Isis flag: What do the words mean and what are its origins? In the year that the extremist group Isis has risen to international attention by establishing its so-called Islamic state across swathes of Iraq and Syria, it has proven itself as a powerful propaganda machine capable of attracting recruits from across the world and inspiring bloody terror attacks.he flag in its entirety is used by Al-Shabab in Somalia and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula amongst others, Winter added. He went on to explain that Isis “have done a good job of co-opting” the flag for their cause, even when it is used in a context unrelated to the organisation.
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ISIS Reportedly Targets Fort Bliss In Texas As The Inquisitr previously reported, Judicial Watch claims that ISIS is using the crime-ridden city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as a staging area for a car bomb attack on the military installation, which is about 15 minutes from the Mexican border. Fort Bliss is the U.S. Army’s second largest installation. Over Labor Day weekend, for security reasons, Fort Bliss closed off two of its entry gates previously accessible to civilians. Other extra security measures may also be in play at the base.
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The real ideology driving ISIS isn't Islam or caliphate revivalism: it's ultraviolence So much has been written about ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Where it comes from, what it wants, what drives its extremist ideology, why it has overtaken so much of the Middle East, what the world and the United States can and cannot do stop it.
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- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, IPA: / ˈ aɪ s əl /), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS / ˈ aɪ s ɪ s /), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (Arabic: داعش ‎ dāʿish, IPA: [ˈdaːʕɪʃ]), is a Salafi jihadist militant group and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi, and heterodox doctrine of Sunni Islam.
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ISIS declares the âcaliphateâ has been established ISIS declares the ‘caliphate’ has been established. John Hayward Follow @@Doc_0 | Monday Jun 30, 2014 8:56 AM. The leaders of an Al Qaeda splinter group that has seized vast portions of northern and western Iraq have declared the establishment of an Islamic state and demanded allegiance from other Muslim groups.
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France Strikes ISIS Targets in Syria in Retaliation for Attacks France Strikes ISIS Targets in Syria in Retaliation for Attacks. PARIS — France bombed the Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday night, its most aggressive strike against the Islamic State group it blames for killing 129 people in a string of terrorist attacks across Paris only two days before.
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France is ditching the âIslamic Stateâ name â and replacing it with a label the group hates At first, many called it the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). However, due to differences over how the name should be translated from the Arabic, some (including the U.S. government) referred to them as ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).