ISIS PRESENTATION

Goal

ISIS

First attak

One of the goal's of the terrorist organization is to create a new Islamic state, free of the leadership of the region's Shiite governments

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What is it?

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

is a Sunni jihadist group with a particularly violent ideology that calls itself a caliphate and claims religious authority over all Muslims

The Islamic State, transnational Sunni insurgent group operating primarily in western Iraq and eastern Syria.

Civilian Death toll

Emerged from the remnants of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a local offshoot of al Qaeda founded by Abu Musab al Zarqawi in 2004

The United Nations estimated that between January 1, 2014, and June 30, 2014, more than 5,500 civilians were killed and more than 11,000 were injured in the ISIS offensive

Various group names

• ISIL
• IS
• DAESH

How was ISIS formed?

It sprang from al Qaeda in Iraq

A surge of US troops, with the help of Sunni tribesmen who were at odds with al Qaeda, largely defeated the group in Iraq It took territory, and a new name: ISISIt sprang from al Qaeda in Iraq

The group’s roots are in the Sunni terror group al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), started in 2004 by Jordanian Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Leader

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi

is an Iraqi Islamist who is the second and current leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The statement also claimed Hashemi was a veteran jihadist fighter who had fought against the US in the past. With the name "al-Qurashi", the group also made clear that he claims to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe - something generally held by pre-modern Sunni scholars as being a key qualification for becoming a caliph.

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Expansion and declarationn of a caliphate

From its stronghold in Al-Raqqah, ISIL expanded outward, launching successful offensives in both Syria and Iraq.

In late June the group released an audio message declaring a caliphate in the territory controlled by ISIL, with Baghdadi as the caliph.

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The Syrian Civil War

In February 1982, Hafez al-Assad ordered the military to put down a Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama with brute force. Syrian forces killed more than twenty-five thousand there.

In March 2011 Syria’s government, led by Pres. Bashar al-Assad, faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority when pro-democracy protests erupted throughout the country.

ISIS TERRORIST ATTACKS

FIGHTING ISIS

• The United States military dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS compound in Afghanistan in April 2017.

• In response to ISIS violence, various countries—including the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, several Arab nations and other countries—have initiated efforts to defeat the terrorist group.

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