Islamic State
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islamic-state-208-3031083
title:
Islamic State
text:
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by their Arabic acronym Daesh, are a transnational Salafi jihadist group. Their origins were in the Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah organization founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004. The organization affiliated itself with Al-Qaeda, so IS was originally a branch of Al-Qaeda and fought alongside them during the Iraqi insurgency. IS eventually split, and gained globa
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Salafi jihadist militant Islamist group
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
date created:
2007-01-24T10:26:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T06:48:47Z
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