islamic state 'caliphate' defeated, yet threat persists
SDF captured hundreds more recent weeks who tried to slip through its cordon and escape into Iraq or across Euphrates and into Syrian desert.. ..…
explainer - does islamic state still pose a threat?
An unknown number remain at large in both Syria and Iraq. . Iraq is putting on trial, imprisoning and often executing IS detainees. ... -backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) holds many hundreds of Islamic State fighters and followers, but the numbers have ballooned as the SDF..…
foreign hostages executed under the is 'caliphate'
In a video said to be of his death, IS also says it has beheaded at least 18 men described as Syrian military personnel, the latest in a series of mass executions it has carried out in Syria and Iraq. . - Japanese killed - . ..…
timeline - the rise and fall of islamic state in iraq and syria
-led of Iraq, Qaeda offshoot sets up there, changing its name in 2006 to Islamic State Iraq. - 2011 - After Syria's crisis begins, Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi sends operatives there to set up Syrian subsidiary. ... In September Syrian army races eastwards backed by Russia and Iran to..…
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