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Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام
ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām

Participant in the Iraq War (2003–2011), , Syrian Civil War, , , Boko Haram insurgency, War in North-West Pakistan, , , and other conflicts


Primary target of Operation Inherent Resolve and of the military intervention against ISIL: in Syria, , Libya, and Nigeria.
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Active
Ideology

Salafism,

Salafi jihadism,

Wahhabism
Groups
Leaders
Headquarters Al-Raqqah, Syria
(de facto capital)
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Areas of control as of November 9, 2016, in the , Syrian, and Lebanese conflicts
Strength
Originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (1999)

الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام
ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām

Participant in the Iraq War (2003–2011), , Syrian Civil War, , , Boko Haram insurgency, War in North-West Pakistan, , , and other conflicts

Salafism,

Salafi jihadism,

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, IPA /ˈsl/), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, /ˈss/),Islamic State (IS), and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (Arabic: داعش‎‎ dāʿish, IPA: [ˈdaːʕɪʃ]), is a Salafi jihadist unrecognised state and militant group that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. Its adoption of the name Islamic State and its idea of a caliphate have been widely criticised, with the United Nations, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups rejecting its .


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