Richard McNeil Willson Richard McNeil Willson is student at Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, specialising Islamic western Europe and Middle East. ..…

Islamic State militants responded by beheading Western captives, beginning with freelance American journalist James Foley, and posting their deeds in gruesome online videos. . ..…

Thousands of volunteers flocked into Iraq and Syria from around the world to become “Jund al-Khilafa” - soldiers of the caliphate and join him in his fight against the Shi’ite-led Iraqi government and its U.S. and Western allies. . ... At the height of its power in 2016, Islamic State..…

The declared objective of these Chinese-based jihadist entities  is to establish Islamic caliphate extending into Western China   .. ... Western media has embraced the consensus it has described Islamic State as entity, outside enemy. ..…

The Western media is reporting that US military forces have killed the supposed leader of the so-called “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) in Syria’s northern governorate of Idlib. . ..…

At the height of its power in 2016, Islamic State ruled over millions of people in territory running from northern Syria through towns and villages along the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys to the outskirts of Baghdad. . ... Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a string of..…

In fact – the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as early as 2012 had even noted (PDF) a Western and Persian Gulf-led conspiracy to create what it called at the time a “Salafist” [Islamic] “principality” [State] precisely in eastern Syria where ISIS would eventually find itself..…