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The history of the movement in Syria begins in the 1920s, when the second caliph of the Community, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad visited Damascus, as part of his tour of Europe and the Middle East. The caliph appointed Sayyid Zayn al'Abidin Waliullah Shah and Jalal al-Din Shams to be sent for missionary work in Damascus.
Cemetery in Qayyarah, Iraq, destroyed by the Islamic State (November 2016) Since 2014, the Islamic State has destroyed cultural heritage on an unprecedented scale, primarily in Iraq and Syria, but also in Libya. These attacks and demolitions targeted a variety of ancient and medieval artifacts, museums, libraries, and places of worship, among ...
This is a list of current and former members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its previous incarnations, including operating as a branch of al-Qaeda known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), from 2004 to 2006. [1]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned that Islamic State will try to re-establish capabilities in Syria after the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad but said that the United States ...
The Kurds currently guard 50,000 Islamic State prisoners in camps and are also essential to prevent the group regaining a foothold. There are calls from some for the U.S. to warn Turkey to pull ...
This meeting, Nour said, would be aimed at finding a longer-term solution to Syria's 13-year-old simmering civil war – in particular its underpinning by non-state actors such as Hezbollah at a ...
2024 Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched airstrikes in Erbil targeting an alleged Mossad headquarter and several sites in Syria which it said were linked to ISIS. [14] A clash between Boko Haram and ISWAP on the islands of Kandahar and Kaduna Ruwa killed dozens of militants. [15]
By 2014, Islamic State had seized control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Under the group’s harsh interpretation of Islam , thousands in the region, including minorities such as Yazidis, were ...