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"What ISIS Really Wants". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. This page was last edited on 7 February 2025, at 16:40 (UTC). Text is ...
Experts disagree on the importance of ideology in IS. According to Cole Bunzel, not all members of IS are aware of the ideology of the group they support. [1] On the other hand, Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, who specializes in the study of IS, argues that many Western observers fail to understand the passionate attachment of IS—including its rank and file—to religious doctrine: "Even ...
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).
Dabiq (Arabic: دابق) was a Raqqa-based online magazine of the Islamic State, published via the deep web from July 2014 to July 2016 (Ramadan 1435 to Shawwal 1437). One of the many forms of Islamic State mass media, it partook in religious outreach to Muslims around the world, [1] ultimately seeking to gain new recruits for the "caliphate" by encouraging Muslims to immigrate to Islamic ...
Locations where the United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq (as of 16 September 2014). On 8 September, the Iraqi Army, with close air support from the U.S., retook the key Haditha Dam, and recaptured the town of Barwana, killing 15 ISIL fighters. [230] ISIL responded with the public execution of David Haines. [231]
The Isis Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Reprint ed.). New York City: St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250112644. Nance, Malcolm (2017). Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1510711846. Warrick, Joby (2015). Black Flags: The Rise of ...
Few in Western media refer to ISIS as 'Daesh,' though more and more U.S. officials are using the term for the militant group. Here's what it means.
The first French-language parody accounts appeared on Twitter in the summer of 2014, [22] [23] [24] after ISIS broadcast images of the murder of James Foley. The aim was to disrupt terrorist propaganda using humour and mockery as means of resilience, [3] [25] deconstructing the misleading motive of an invincible jihad in an ideal Caliphate, [26] and oppose the violence of its images.