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The Islamic State (IS) had its core in Iraq and Syria from 2013 to 2017 and 2019 respectively, where the proto-state controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory, mainly in the Mesopotamian region. [14]
An Islamic state has a form of government ... The modern conception of Islamic state was first articulated by the Syrian-Egyptian Islamic theologian Muḥammad ...
BBC's recently updated map of ISIS controlled areas (This is the most recent source) BBC's map of Syria. Noria Research's map of Syria. Map and information on claimed areas. Some info in Aleppo and Ar-Raqqah Governorate (Jan 19, 2014) Derived from: File:Saudi Arabia location map.svg File:Jordan location map.svg File:Syria location map.svg
By ZEINA KARAM BEIRUT (AP) -- As the U.S. strikes Islamic State targets in Iraq, extremists belonging to the same militant group across the border in Syria are capturing new territory and becoming ...
Coalition airstrike on an Islamic State position in Kobani, Syria, October 2014 In early February 2015, IS militants in Libya managed to capture part of the countryside to the west of Sabha , and later, an area encompassing the cities of Sirte , Nofolia , and a military base to the south of both cities.
The Islamic State group still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today ...
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 ...
War against the Islamic State; Part of the War on terror, the Second Libyan Civil War, the War in Iraq (2013–2017), the Syrian civil war and its spillover, the Sinai insurgency, the Boko Haram insurgency, the insurgency in the North Caucasus, the Moro conflict, the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the Qandala campaign and the Sahel War