Islamic State of Iraq - Wikipedia The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U S -led coalition during the Iraqi insurgency The organization aimed to overthrow the Iraqi federal government and establish an Islamic state governed by Sharia law in Iraq
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) | History, Terrorism . . . Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a transnational jihad movement that originated among Sunni Iraqis and until 2014 was affiliated with al-Qaeda ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate amid significant territorial gains in 2014 but lost most of its territory by November 2017
The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization) | RAND ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), also known as ISIL (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
Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) ISIS is a Salafi-jihadist group that has conducted and inspired terrorist attacks worldwide, resulting in thousands killed or injured In 2004, an Iraqi extremist network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi merged with al-Qa‘ida to form ISIS’s predecessor group, al-Qa‘ida in Iraq (AQI), which Zarqawi led until his death in 2006
ISIS | New Jersey OHSP ISIS—also referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Islamic State, or Daesh—is a Salafi-jihadist militant group that was originally part of al-Qa’ida, operating as its affiliate in Iraq