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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 jihadist flag is a flag commonly used by various Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist movements as a symbol of jihad. It usually consists of the Black Standard with a white text of the Shahada (Islamic declaration of faith) emblazoned across it in Arabic calligraphy. Its usage is asserted to be adopted by Islamist groups and jihadists during ...
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. ... in Iraq to combat the Islamic State by 2026 ...
Flag of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq: 2:3 Flag of the Popular Mobilization Forces: Flag of Kata'ib Hezbollah: 2:3 Flag of the Iraqi Turkmen Front: Flag of the Kurdistan Justice Group: Flag of the Islamic State: 2:3 Flag of Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region: Flag of Islamic Army of Iraq: Former 2:3 Flag of the Kurdistan Brigades
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 ...
Despite continuing pressure from the U.S. coalition and local forces, a U.S. Central Command report in July said Islamic State had claimed more attacks in Iraq and Syria in the first six months of ...
At the height of its power from 2014-2017, the Islamic State "caliphate" imposed death and torture on communities in vast swathes of Iraq and Syria and enjoyed franchises across the Middle East.
The two countries are part of the Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition which was formed as a consequence of an agreement reached at the end of September 2015 between Russia, Iran, Iraq and the Syrian government to "help and cooperate in collecting information about the Islamic State to combat the advances of the group, according to the ...