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    territorial extent of 282,485 km2. The majority of the Islamic State’s territory, population, revenue, and prestige came from the territory it once held in...
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    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 its Arabic acronym...
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    The Islamic State dinar (Arabic: دينار الدولة الإسلامية), or simply the gold dinar, was the official currency of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2019. Subdivided...
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  • The origins of the Islamic State group can be traced back to three main organizations. Earliest of these was the "Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād" (transl...
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    The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K, IS–K, IS–KP) is a regional branch of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State (IS) active in South-Central...
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    during the 2012 Tuareg rebellion. The Islamic State is also widely held to be an example of a modern quasi-state or proto-state. The term "proto-state" has...
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    The Islamic State of Afghanistan was established by the Peshawar Accords of 26 April 1992. Many Afghan mujahideen parties participated in its creation...
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    The following is a list of conflicts involving the jihadist militant group known as the Islamic State (IS/ISIL/ISIS/Daesh), throughout its various incarnations...
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    The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State throughout Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal...
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    The Military of the Islamic State is the fighting force of the Islamic State (IS). The total force size at its peak was estimated from tens of thousands...
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    The Islamic State – Libya Province is a militant Islamist group active in Libya under three branches: Fezzan Province (Arabic: ولاية فزان, Wilayah Fizan)...
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  • Tariq Abdul Haqq (category Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members)
    hands. Abdul Haqq was killed after less than six months in the territory of the Islamic State. His brother-in-law Osyaba Muhammad was killed in Syria in...
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  • Look up Islamic State in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Islamic state may refer to historical polities or theories of governance in the Islamic world...
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  • The condition of human rights in the territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS) is considered to be one of the worst in the world. The Islamic State's...
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  • and Libya controlled by the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State. Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later...
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  • In classical Islamic law, the major divisions of the world in Islam are dar al-Islam (lit. territory of Islam/voluntary submission to God), denoting regions...
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    carried the name of the territory. Otherwise, down the centuries, Syria like Arabia and Mesopotamia was no more than a geographic expression. In Islamic times...
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    regional branch of the Islamic State 'caliphate' and started to clash against Taliban insurgents over control of territory during the war in Afghanistan...
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  • The ideology of the Islamic State, sometimes called Islamic Statism, has been described as being a hybrid of Salafism, Salafi jihadism, Sunni Islamist...
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  • known as Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a name which had failed to gain any traction, as the group had failed to gain or hold any significant territory as ISI...
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    Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian Civil War and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial...
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  • administrative division of the Islamic State (IS), a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised quasi-state. ISWAP is primarily active in the Chad Basin, and...
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    The Islamic State – Sahel Province (ISSP), formerly known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS), is an Islamist militant group adhering to the...
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    The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the...
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    The Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus is ongoing terror activity of the Islamic State branch in the North Caucasus after the insurgency of...
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    crafted the 1973 Constitution. It declared Pakistan an Islamic Republic, with Islam as the state religion, and mandated laws to comply with Islamic teachings...
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  • Since 2012, the Islamic State (IS) has produced annual reports giving numerical information on its operations, somewhat in the style of corporate reports...
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  • Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. While some...
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    religions practiced in the territory include Christianity (6.3%) and Islam (6.1%). Puducherry is a union territory of India rather than a state, which implies...
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    a 2011–2013 insurgency and the rise of the Islamic State. Following the liberation of much of Islamic State-held territory in 2017, only a low-level insurgency...
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