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On 25 October 2009 twin bombings targeted Iraqi government buildings in Baghdad killing 155 people and injuring 721, [92] and were also claimed by Islamic State of Iraq. [91] In November 2009, Islamic State of Iraq issued another plea on the Internet, calling for Sunnis to rally around a common end goal. [86]
The British government proscribed ISIL as a terrorist organisation in June 2014. Previously, it had been proscribed as a part of Al-Qaeda. The government describes the group as follows: [28] ISIL is a brutal Sunni Islamist terrorist group active in Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Army soldier in Iraq with captured flag from the Islamic State of Iraq, December 2010 By 2008, the ISI was describing itself as being in a state of "extraordinary crisis". [ 35 ] Its violent attempts to govern territory led to a backlash from Sunni Arab Iraqis and other insurgent groups and a temporary decline in the group, which was ...
The standard was used until the creation of the United Arab Republic, a state union of Syria and Egypt, in 1958. After the collapse of the United Arab Republic, Syria continued to use the UAR's flag until 28 September 1961, when the independence flag was restored to disassociate Syria from the former failed union. [15]
Presidential flag of Syria: A horizontal tricolour of dark green, white and black with 3 red stars. [1] 1958–1961: Presidential flag of the United Arab Republic: A horizontal tricolour of red, white and black with 2 dark green stars. The coloured emblem of the United Arab Republic is at the top-left hoist. 1963–1972: Presidential flag of Syria
Afghanistan was run as an Islamic state (Islamic State of Afghanistan) in the post-communist era since 1992, but then de facto by the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) in areas controlled by them since 1996 and after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban the country was still known as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan until 15 August 2021 ...
The Arab Liberation Flag was often modified by states to include symbols such as the Eagle of Saladin, as seen on the flag of Egypt, or green stars, as seen on the former flags of North Yemen, Iraq and Syria. The Eagle of Saladin on the Egyptian flag represents republicanism, while the two green stars on the former Syrian flag used from 1980 to ...
Abu Umar al-Baghdadi and Abu Hamza al-Muhajir both insisted that the Islamic State of Iraq was not simply a new name for Al Qaeda in Iraq, but was an actual state. When other Iraq-based Salafi factions like the Islamic Army in Iraq refused to recognize it as a state and give it their allegiance , Abu Umar al-Baghdadi called them "sinners".