IRAQ: SWEET NEWS FROM ZIO-WAHHABI RAT'S 'ISIS'

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Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr

From the Islamic State (ISIS) family album

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام (Arabic) ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fīl-ʿIrāq wash-Shām Participant in: the Syrian CIA War, Iraq CIA  War (2003–2011), Iraqi insurgency, Second Libyan CiA War, Boko Haram insurgency, and other conflicts Primary target of: The Global War on Terrorism and of the Military interventions against ISIL: in Iraq, in Syria, in Libya, and in Nigeria.
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Motto: باقية وتتمدد Bāqiyah wa-Tatamaddad “Remaining and Expanding”
Anthem: أمتي قد لاح فجر Ummatī, qad lāha fajrun “My Nation, Dawn Has Appeared”
Military situation as of 15 March 2015, in Iraq and Syrian conflicts.   Controlled by Iraqi Government forces   Controlled by Syrian Government forces   Controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant   Controlled by Iraqi Kurdistan forces   Controlled by Syrian Kurdistan forces   Controlled by Syrian Opposition forces   Controlled by al-Nusra Note: Iraq and Syria contain large desert areas with limited population. These areas are mapped as under the control of forces holding roads and towns within them. Map of the current military situation in Iraq Map of the current military situation in Syria Map of the current military situation in Libya
Administrative center		Ar-Raqqah, Syria (de facto) 35°57′N 39°1′E
Largest city		Mosul, Iraq
Ideologies		Salafist jihadism Salafism
Type		Rebel group controlling territory Current control in  Iraq  Libya  Syria  Nigeria Former control in  Lebanon
Military strength & operation areas		Inside Iraq and Syria 200,000 (Kurdish claim) 20,000–31,000 (CIA estimate) Outside Iraq and Syria 29,000–46,800 (SeeMilitary of ISIL for more-detailed estimates.) Estimated total 49,000–246,800
Leaders
–	Leader	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
–	Deputy leader in Iraq	Abu Muslim al-Turkmani
–	Deputy leader in Syria	Abu Ali al-Anbari
–	Head of Military Shura	Abu Ayman al-Iraqi
–	Spokesman	Abu Mohammad al-Adnani
–	Field commander	Abu Omar al-Shishani
Establishment
–	Formation (as Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād)	1999
–	Joined al-Qaeda	October 2004
–	Declaration of an Islamic statein Iraq	13 October 2006
–	Claim of territory in the Levant	8 April 2013
–	Separated from al-Qaeda	3 February 2014
–	Declaration of Caliphate	29 June 2014
–	Claim of territory in Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan	13 November 2014

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL /ˈaɪsəl/; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام‎), also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS /ˈaɪsɪs/) or Islamic State, is an Islamic extremist rebel group controlling territory in Iraq and Syria, with operations in Lebanon, Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and other areas of the Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The group is known in Arabic asad-Dawlat al-Islāmiyah fī al-ʿIrāq wa sh-Shām, leading to the Arabic acronym Da’ish or DAESH (داعش, Arabic pronunciation:daːʕiʃ). On 29 June 2014, the group proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named its caliph and also renamed itself Islamic State (الدولة الإسلامية, ad-Dawlat al-Islāmiyah). The new name has been widely criticised and condemned, with the UN, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups refusing to acknowledge it. As caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide and that “the legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organisations, becomes null by the expansion of the khilāfah’s (caliphate’s) authority and arrival of its troops to their areas”. Many Islamic and non-Islamic communities judge the group unrepresentative of Islam.

The United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a “historic scale”. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Syria, Egypt, India, and Russia. Over 60 countries are directly or indirectly waging war against ISIL.
The group originated as Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which was renamed Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn—commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)—when the group pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004. As Jama’atand later AQI, the group participated, from August 2003, in the Iraqi insurgency which had followed the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. In January 2006, it joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council, which in October 2006 proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). ISI gained a significant presence in Al Anbar Governorate,Diyala Governorate and Baghdad Governorate.
Under the leadership of al-Baghdadi, ISI sent delegates into Syria in August 2011 after the Syrian Civil War had begun in March 2011. This group named itself Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahli ash-Shām or al-Nusra Front and established a large presence in Sunni-majority areas of Syria within the governorates of Ar-Raqqah, Idlib, Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo. In April 2013, al-Baghdadi announced the merger of his ISI with al-Nusra Front, and announced the name of the reunited group was nowIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). However, both al-Julani and al-Zawahiri, the leaders of al-Nusra and of al-Qaeda, rejected the merger. After an eight-month power struggle al-Qaeda cut all ties with ISIL in February 2014—citing its failure to consult and “notorious intransigence”. On 29 June 2014, the group renamed itself the Islamic State (IS).

ISIL is known for its well-funded web and social media propaganda, which includes Internet videos of the beheadings of soldiers, civilians, journalists, and aid workers, as well as the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage sites. To finance its activities, the organisation is also stealing ancient artefacts from Syria and Iraq.
The group gained notoriety after it drove the Iraqi government forces out of key western cities in Iraq. In Syria, it conducted ground attacks against both government forces and rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War. It gained those territories after an offensive, initiated in early 2014, which senior US military commanders and members of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs saw as a re-emergence of Sunni insurgents and al-Qaeda militants. This territorial loss implied a failure of US foreign policy, and almost caused a collapse of the Iraqi government that prompted renewal of US military action in Iraq.