ISIL, ISIS, IS -- Who Are They? We have received a few questions - TopicsExpress



          

ISIL, ISIS, IS -- Who Are They? We have received a few questions from our readers regarding the name of the Islamic terrorist group controlling much of Iraq and Syria. We use ISIL, short for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, because it is the designation used by the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence. Levant refers to a region in the Middle East stretching from Turkey to Egypt, including Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Others use ISIS for Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, sometimes contending that al-Sham does not encompass the same swath of territory as Levant. The group now calls itself simply the Islamic State, or IS, because they claim to have established a caliphate. Whatever its called, ISIL is an offshoot of al-Qaida (which in February 2014 cut ties with ISIL) and it presents a clear and present threat to the U.S. -- arguably far worse than al-Qaida.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:02:46 +0000

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