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ISIS
Facts - 1: What does ISIS
stand for? Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria.
ISIS
Facts - 2: ISIS is an
off-shoot of
Al-Qaeda, an international, radical Islamic
group, once led by by Osama Bin Laden, that emerged when
they fought against the 1979 Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda consists of Sunni Muslims who
practice Wahhabism, an ultraconservative, extreme form
of Islam, the religion of the Muslims.
ISIS
Facts - 3:
The Al-Qaeda group demanded a return to traditional
Muslim laws and conventions, the strict interpretation
of the Koran (Quaran) the Islamic sacred book and
encouraged new jihads (holy wars). In Ayman al-Zawahiri became the official leader of
Al Qaeda following the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011.
ISIS
Facts -
4: When was ISIS
formed? The faction that would become known as ISIS
began to emerge in 2003, following the US-led 2003
Invasion of Iraq and the "shock and awe" bombing
campaign which led to the
Iraq War.
ISIS
Facts - 5: A Jordanian called Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi (20 October 1966 - 7 June 2006), a militant Islamist who
had run a paramilitary training camp for Jihadists in Afghanistan,
pledged his allegiance to Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and formed Al
Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which became a major force in the Muslim
uprising.
ISIS
Facts - 6: The AQI created an an umbrella
organization uniting eight Sunni factions called the Islamic State
in Iraq (ISI). Its goals were to expel the US from Iraq, turn Iraq
into a Sunni Islamic state or caliphate and extend its program to
neighboring countries.
ISIS
Facts - 7: Sunni Arab tribesmen opposed
the goals extremism of ISI and created the Sahwa (Awakening)
councils and established a US-funded militia. The combined forces of
the militia and the US troop surge weakened the ISI (Islamic State
in Iraq)
ISIS
Facts - 8: In 2010 Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, known as Caliph Ibrahim, led the resurgence
of the ISI and began rebuilding its capabilities and
directing numerous attacks in Iraq.
ISIS
Facts - 9: ISIS: The
ISI (Islamic State in Iraq) then joined the rebellion
against President Bashar al-Assad in Syria setting up
the al-Nusra Front and became known as ISIS, the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria.
ISIS
Facts - 10: ISIL: In
April 2013 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the merger of
his forces in Iraq and Syria and the creation of ISIL,
the "Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant". This name reflected the new goal of
territorial ownership of all of Iraq and the Levant
(Syria and Lebanon)
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ISIS
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11: The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) affirmed the group's allegiance to Al-Qaeda
and its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
ISIS
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12: ISIS forces scored
a great victory when it took control of the central city
of Falluja in Iraq (30 December 2013 – 4 January 2014)
aided by former Saddam Hussein loyalists. Falluja was
one of the first Iraqi cities to fall out of the control
of the Iraqi Government. By May 2015 the city of Ramadi
in central Iraq had been completely captured by ISIS /
ISIL forces.
ISIS
Facts -
13: ISIL swept through
much of northern and eastern Syria and increased ISIL's
control of Syria to at least 50%. In May 2015 they captured
the city of Palmyra in Syria's Homs province, a UNESCO
World Heritage site. Concerns began to grow that the
ISIL destruction of Palmyra would encourage the United
States to force Iraq into increase cooperation with
Syria.
ISIS
Facts -
14: The Capture of
Mosul: In June 2014 ISIS fighters overran the northern
city of Mosul in Iraq. Mosul was garrisoned by 2
Divisions of the Iraqi Army. The capture of Mosul
allowed them to equip itself with state of the art
military technology, that the US government had given to
the Iraqi military, and loot billions of dollars from
the Bank of Mosul.
ISIS
Facts -
15: Islamic State:
ISIS capitalized on its victory in Mosul and
consolidated its hold over dozens of towns and cities in
Iraq. The taking of Mosul allowed ISIS and ISIL to
create a caliphate, rename itself the Islamic State and
to claim absolute authority over all of the world’s
Muslims. Refer to
Islamic
State (IS).
ISIS
Facts -
16: In 2014 the
Islamic State covertly invaded Syria and the Levant and
began participating in the ongoing Syrian Civil War
ISIS
Facts -
17: In March 2015
Islamic State destroyed Assyrian archaeological sites of
Nimrud in Mespotamia.and at Hatra in northern Iraq
ISIS
Facts - 18: In September 2015, Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of
Al Qaeda, urged the Islamic State to stop fighting in Syria and to unite
with all other jihadists against western and Middle East alliances.
ISIS
Facts -
19: Forces loyal to
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rejected the idea and helped ISIL,
now the Islamic State (IS), to remain in Syria.
Its ranks began to swell quickly and every victory
brought even more fanatical fighters to the
organization.
ISIS Facts - 20:
October 2014:
Radical militants gained control of the Eastern Libyan
coastal city of Derna, making Derna in Libya the first
city outside Syria and Iraq to become part of the
"Islamic State Caliphate".
ISIS Facts - 21:
The rival group has since been
disavowed by Al-Qaeda. The Islamic State (IS), still also referred
to as ISIS or ISIL has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government
forces in Iraq and Syria and encouraging terrorist attacks around
the world attacking hotels, mosques, busy city streets and
other civilian targets, many in non-Western countries.
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