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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 ...
The first week of June 2007, ISI fighters exchanged heavy fire with Sunni insurgents, including IAI members, in several Baghdad neighborhoods. [73] On 6 June 2007, the Islamic Army in Iraq "reached an agreement with al-Qaeda in Iraq, leading to an immediate cessation of all military operations between the two sides", according to an IAI statement.
Isis continues to assist her son when he challenges Set to claim the kingship that Set has usurped, [40] although mother and son are sometimes portrayed in conflict, as when Horus beheads Isis and she replaces her original head with that of a cow—an origin myth explaining the cow-horn headdress that Isis wears.
An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of returning home—and what it means to be granted a second chance.
It is a term that most Arab states and many European governments use to refer to the Islamic State or ISIS. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry often uses the term, too.
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"Letter to Baghdadi" (Arabic: رسالة مفتوحة إلى أبو بكر البغدادي, romanized: risāla maftūḥa ʾilā ʾAbū Bakr al-Baghdādī, lit. 'an open letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi') is an open letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria published in 2014 as a theological refutation of the practices and ideology of the Islamic State of ...
Since ISIS markets itself as a legitimate state complete with the functions of any other government bureaucracy, the militants have created a complex financial system to extract as much money as ...