I
will post information about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria also known as
ISIS from Wikipedia and a video link from Vice News.
Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant
الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام (Arabic) ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām
Participant in the Syrian
Civil War, Iraq War (2003–2011), Iraqi insurgency, Iraq War (2014–present), Second Libyan Civil War, Boko Haram insurgency, War in North-West Pakistan, War in Afghanistan, Yemeni Civil War, and other conflicts
Primary target of
the Global War on Terrorism and of the Military intervention against ISIL:
in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and
Nigeria.
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Motto: باقية وتتمدد
Bāqiyah wa-Tatamaddad "Remaining and Expanding" |
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Anthem: أمتي قد لاح فجر
Ummatī, qad lāḥa fajrun "My Nation, A Dawn Has Appeared" |
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Administrative center
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Largest
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Ideology
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Type
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Military strength & operation areas
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Inside Syria and Iraq
200,000 (Kurdish claim) 20,000–31,000 (CIA estimate) Outside Syria and Iraq 32,600–57,900 (See Military of ISIL for more-detailed estimates.) Estimated total 52,600–257,900 |
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Deputy leader in Syria
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Deputy leader in Iraq
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Military chief
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Governor of South & Central Euphrates
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Chief spokesperson
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Chief of Syrian military operations
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Establishment
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Formation (as Jamāʻat
al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād)
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1999
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Joined al-Qaeda
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October 2004
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Declaration of an Islamic
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13 October 2006
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Claim of territory in the Levant
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8 April 2013
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Separated from al-Qaeda
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3 February 2014
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Declaration of caliphate
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29 June 2014
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Claim of territory in Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi
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13 November 2014
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The
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL /ˈaɪsəl/;
Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية
في العراق والشام),
also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or the Islamic
State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS /ˈaɪsɪs/),
or simply as the Islamic State, is a Salafi jihadi militant group and
self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state that as of March 2015 has
control over territory occupied by ten million people in Iraq
and Syria, as well as limited territorial
control in Libya and Nigeria. The group also operates or has affiliates in
other parts of the world including southeast Asia.
The
group is known in Arabic as ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām,
leading to the acronym Da'ish, Da'eesh, or DAESH (داعش, Arabic pronunciation: [ˈdaːʕiʃ]),
the Arabic equivalent of "ISIL". On 29 June 2014, the group
proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate,
with Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi being named its caliph, and renamed itself "Islamic
State" (الدولة الإسلامية, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah). The new name and the idea
of a caliphate has been widely criticised and condemned, with the United
Nations, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups all refusing to
acknowledge it. As caliphate, it claims religious, political and military
authority over all Muslims worldwide and that "the
legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organisations, becomes null by
the expansion of the khilāfah's [caliphate's] authority and arrival of its
troops to their areas". Many Islamic and non-Islamic communities judge the group to be unrepresentative of Islam.
The
United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and Amnesty
International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a
"historic scale". The group has been designated
as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the
United States, India, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates, Syria, Egypt, and Russia. Over 60 countries are directly
or indirectly waging
war against ISIL.
The
group originated as Jama'at
al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004. The group participated in
the Iraqi
insurgency, which had followed the March 2003 invasion of
Iraq by Western forces. In January 2006, it joined other Sunni
insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen
Shura Council, which proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of
Iraq (ISI) in October 2006.
Under
the leadership of al-Baghdadi, the ISI sent delegates into Syria in August 2011
after the Syrian Civil War
began in March 2011. This group named itself Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahli ash-Shām or
al-Nusra Front, and established a large presence in Sunni-majority areas of
Syria, within the governorates of Ar-Raqqah,
Idlib, Deir ez-Zor,
and Aleppo.
In
April 2013, al-Baghdadi announced the merger of his ISI with al-Nusra Front,
and announced that the name of the reunited group was now the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). However, both Abu Mohammad
al-Julani and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leaders of al-Nusra
and al-Qaeda respectively, rejected the merger. After an eight-month power
struggle, al-Qaeda cut all ties with ISIL on 3 February 2014, citing its
failure to consult and "notorious intransigence".
ISIL
is known for its well-funded web and social media propaganda, which includes
Internet videos of beheadings of
soldiers, civilians, journalists and aid workers, as well as the
deliberate destruction
of cultural heritage sites.
The
group gained prominence after it drove Iraqi government forces out of key
western cities in Iraq. In Syria, it conducted ground attacks against both
government forces and rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War. It gained those
territories after an offensive, initiated in early 2014, which senior US
military commanders and members of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs
saw as a re-emergence of Sunni insurgents and al-Qaeda militants. Iraq's territorial
loss almost caused a collapse of the Iraqi government and prompted renewal of
US military action in Iraq.
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Fighters of ISIS
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://muslimmirror.com/eng/dont-blame-islam-al-qaeda-and-isis-are-products-of-us-and-saudi-imperialism/
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INTERNET
SOURCE: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/30/islamic-state-first-anniversary-scorecard-3027-executed-including-74-children-86-women/
Islamic State First
Anniversary Scorecard: 3,027 Executed Including 74 Children, 86 Women
by30 Jun 2015
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Executions: ISIS themselves has also been
attacked for carrying out even more brutal executions, such as the ones from
mid-June pictured above where militants marched up and down rows of bodies
shooting them.
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A report published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on
the first anniversary of the founding of Islamic State’s (IS) ‘caliphate’
highlights the execution of 3,027 people, 74 children among them.
The radical
Sunni Islamist group did not discriminate, putting to death civilians,
rebels, members of the regime forces and allied militiamen, as well as 143
fellow IS members.
Charges
incurring the death penalty included: insulting God and the
Prophet, sorcery, spying for the benefit of the ‘Nusayri’ regime, sodomy,
fighting IS, apostasy, betrayal, protesting against IS, coordinating with the
awakening movements in Turkey, spying against IS, belonging to Syria’s National
Defence Forces, shiism, drug trafficking, banditry, dealing with and supporting
YPG (Syrian Kurdish militia), sleeper cells to fight IS, being trained by the
international coalition in Turkey, establishing wakening movements to fight IS,
recruiting al-Shaitaat people in Palmyra camp and other charges.
In
addition to the 74 executed children, the report
suggests that of the 1,787 civilians shot, beheaded, burned, stoned,
drowned or thrown from a height, 86 were women.
The Independent recently reported two
boys under the age of 18 were crucified in Syria for not fasting during
the holy month of Ramadan. This is in addition to “several cases of mass
executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children
and burying children alive” set out in a report published in February by the UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The
barbaric execution methods are not limited to children. As reported
elsewhere on Breitbart
prisoners of IS have been drowned in a locked cage, decapitated having
been chained together with explosive necklaces and burned to
death locked in a car hit by an RPG.
The extreme
nature of the killings appears to be a means to an end, a propaganda
device to spread fear and obedience among those under IS rule. Some outside
observers have found it impossible to square with the Islam they know, leading
them to denounce it as a form of heresy. Others have sought to place the blame
with radical Islam’s usual suspects.
The
Jerusalem Post reports
a Syrian analyst who claims to have identified the source of IS unusual cruelty
– “an insidious Israeli influence”. Hessam Shoaibran’s told Iran’s
semi-official news agency FARS that IS barbarity stands apart from other
groups’ actions in the Middle East and is therefore Israel’s fault,
saying:
“Israel’s
presence in [Islamic State’s] command center is indicated by the savagery of
this terrorist group that is based on Talmudic rituals.”
The
Jerusalem Post
concluded:
“The Islamic State has featured a host of gruesome deaths as propaganda tools meant to galvanize potential recruits from across the world into joining its cause, yet while some Arab Israelis have left the country to join them, Israel’s Talmudic sages have yet to send their pupils to consult the jihadists on their tactics.”
The Islamic State (Full Length)
Published
on Aug 14, 2014
EXCLUSIVE:
VICE News Meets Barack Obama: http://bit.ly/1wT03Bi
The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
The lightning advances the Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June shocked the world. But it's not just the group's military victories that have garnered attention — it's also the pace with which its members have begun to carve out a viable state.
Flush with cash and US weapons seized during its advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.
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The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
The lightning advances the Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June shocked the world. But it's not just the group's military victories that have garnered attention — it's also the pace with which its members have begun to carve out a viable state.
Flush with cash and US weapons seized during its advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.
Click to watch "Ghosts of Aleppo (Part 1)" - http://bit.ly/Ghosts-of-Aleppo
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