Islamic State
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The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist militant organisatio
The Al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, after the first attack by Islamic State of Iraq in 2006
The UN headquarters building in Baghdad after the Canal Hotel bombing, on 22 August 2003
Pro-YPG demonstration against ISIL in Vienna, Austria, 10 October 2014
People lay flowers outside the French embassy in Moscow in memory of the victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks.
Islamic State of Iraq
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The Islamic State of Iraq was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the Iraqi insurgency. The organization aimed to overthrow the Iraqi federa
Islamic State
…a significant territory. Originating in the Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004, the organisation (primarily under the Islamic State of Iraq name) affiliated itself with al-Qaeda in Iraq and fought alongside them during the 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency. The group later changed its…
US Marines in Ramadi, May 2006, conducting a snap vehicle checkpoint patrol to disrupt insurgent activity
US soldiers and Sunni Arab tribesmen scan for enemy activity in a farm field in southern Arab Jibor, January 2008