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What is the Islamic State group and what attacks has it inspired?
It began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, IS had seized stunning amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria by 2014. Within territory under its control ...
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Statesman or Jihadist? What to Make of Syria’s De Facto Leader Abu Mohammed Al-Golani
Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaida’s affiliate in that country, announced that his group had formally merged with the Nusra Front, a sympathetic jihadist force led by ...
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What is the Islamic State group, and what attacks has it inspired?
It began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, IS had seized stunning amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria by 2014. Within territory under its control ...