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[14] [20] IS territory has declined substantially in almost every country since 2014, a result of the group's unpopularity and the military action taken against it. [14] By late March 2019, IS territory in Syria was reduced to only the besieged 4,000 km 2 (1,550 sq mi) Syrian Desert pocket. [21]
By DIAA HADID and JOHN HEILPRIN BEIRUT (AP) - The mother of a hostage American journalist pleaded for his release Wednesday in a video directed at the Islamic State group, while new images emerged ...
ISIS-K’s most infamous attack was the suicide bombing at Kabul airport in 2021 that killed nearly 200 people, including 13 US soldiers guarding the airport. But it has since expanded its orbit.
On 8 April 2013, ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi publicly claimed that he had created Jabhat al-Nusra as a Syrian extension of the ISI and announced that he was forcibly merging it with the ISI into one group under his command, forming the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL), also known as "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS).
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
Hughes notes that 2016-2017, when ISIS controlled territory the size of the United Kingdom, was a “banner year” for the recruitment of American jihadists. ... (AFP via Getty Images)
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
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