• ISIL confirms death of leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, names successor.
  • ...been described as "the strategic head" of ISIL, detailed planning for the ISIL takeover of northern Syria which made possible "the group's later advances into Iraq".
  • ^ "ISIL renames itself 'Islamic State' and declares Caliphate in captured territory".
  • President Obama’s statements cast ISIL as a shamed out-group and limit the groups control for the finite resources of land and control as caliphate.
  • Since September 2014, ISIL’s leadership has issued multiple public calls for attacks against US and Western interests around the world, and the group has...
  • The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—also know as ISIS or ISIL—is a jihadist militant group and terrorist organization that formed in 1999.
  • International efforts to defeat the group led to its decline, and both Syria and Iraq considered ISIL effectively defeated by November 2017, though ISIL...
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  • Barack Obama, the United Nations and some news organizations refer to the jihadist group by the acronym ISIL, which stands for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.