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The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the Iraqi insurgency.
The Islamic State insurgency in Iraq is an ongoing low-intensity insurgency that began in 2017 after the Islamic State (IS) lost its territorial control in the War in Iraq, during which IS and allied White Flags fought the Iraqi military (largely backed by the United States, United Kingdom and other countries conducting airstrikes against IS ...
In September 2017, a United Nations Security Council Resolution [168] was adopted to "Reaffirm its respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence and unity of Iraq". [168] Following the adoption of the resolution, a UN investigative team was established to document human rights violations and serious crimes committed by ISIS ...
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]
No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Time of Leadership Note(s) Announced Left office Time in office 1 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. أَبُو بَكْرٍ ٱلْبَغْدَادِيُّ
April 7, 2021 - Iraq announces that it has killed 34 ISIS militants and arrested 99 during a 3-month long operation against the terrorist group around the country. [ 38 ] 60 ISIS militants were also killed in a 10-day long operation near the town of Makhmur in northern Iraq.
[218] the Iraqi Turkmen genocide began when ISIS captured Iraqi Turkmen lands in 2014 and it continued until ISIS lost all of their land in Iraq. In 2017, ISIS's persecution of Iraqi Turkmen was officially recognized as a genocide by the Parliament of Iraq, [219] [220] and in 2018, the sexual slavery of Iraqi Turkmen girls and women was ...
In June 2014, the Islamic State had at least 4,000 fighters in Iraq. [51] By September 2014, the CIA estimated that the group had grown to 20,000–31,500 fighters in Iraq and Syria, [52] while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put its estimate at around 80,000–100,000 total (up to 50,000 in Syria and 30,000 in Iraq) by August ...