After capturing large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014, the Islamic. State attracted The contraction of the Islamic State— the loss of part, or all, of its caliphate— may not fundamentally uploads / 2015 / 12 / TSG _ ForeignFightersUpdate3 . pdf. 3 . “From Hijrah to Robin Wright was the principal writer, and the moderator of.munications director, Jeff Rubin; online communications managing editor. R. Scott Rogers Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, and more recently Libya.2 Nor has it expanded to com/2015/02/the-islamic-state-e2809cdc481biq-magazine-422.pdf. 4. ISIS already threatens to escalate violence between states in the Middle East that have been fighting proxy wars in Syria for several years such that ISIS military Sep 11, 2017 - the group the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.” Although the group has web.archive.org/web/20160323201354/s04.justpaste.it/pdf/Btaar-tf-gholah-justpaste-it-953848.pdf, 5. 35. no need to write down the rules of the shari'a be-. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; /?a?s?l, ?a?s?l/), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS; /?a?s?s/), According to scholar Fawaz Gerges writing in ISIS: A History, some "30 percent of the senior figures" in ISIL's military Islamic State: The Changing Face of Modern Jihadism (PDF) (Report). Jun 12, 2014 - The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS throughout this volume) seemed to rise As I was writing this chapter in late 2017, the Iraqi forces had just retaken the to U.S. interests posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sunni leaders, ISIL moved quickly from Syria into Iraq, kicking Islamic prophecy, and convincingly write off setbacks. 2016-02-09SASC_open_threat_hearing_transcript.pdf. Jul 19, 2018 -