• What follows is an assessment of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from a socio-cultural perspective. (publicintelligence.net)
  • At its current funding rate ISIL can fight a holding action in the Levant while continuing to export terror to the rest of the world. (publicintelligence.net)
  • Historically, tribal affiliation has been the primary determinant of social status in both Syria and Iraq, but ISIL has altered this by elevating its members, many of whom are former Baathists, and foreign fighters to the upper echelons of ISIL society. (publicintelligence.net)
  • In this report, the USCIRF recommends, among other things, that the U.S. Government call upon the UN Security Council to refer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the widely publicized violence attributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (pace.edu)
  • The report gives special attention to abuses committed in Syria and Iraq by forces associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (pace.edu)
  • Based on these findings, the USCIRF recommends that the U.S. Government "call for or support a referral by the UN Security Council to the [ICC] to investigate ISIL violations in Iraq and Syria against religious and ethnic minorities, following the models used [by the Security Council] in Sudan and Libya. (pace.edu)
  • Mumuni was an accomplice of Munther Omar Saleh, a student at a college in Queens, NY, who was also separately charged with plotting a bomb attack in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (investigativeproject.org)
  • The study, entitled The Application of International Humanitarian Law to The Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant, aims first to analyze the legal status of ISIL according to International Humanitarian Law. (uwks.ac.id)
  • Based on the results of the study it can be concluded First: that the Legal Status of ISIL(Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant) is not the subject of belligerent international law, nor is it state or insurgent. (uwks.ac.id)
  • Iraq as a legitimate government does not want to recognize ISIL as belligerent, and the UN issued a Resolution that considers ISIL as a terrorist group. (uwks.ac.id)
  • Second: The enactment of International Humanitarian Law against ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant) is not in accordance with existing regulations, seeing that ISIL has actually fulfilled all the requirements to be subject to international law. (uwks.ac.id)
  • The reports assesses global terrorist threats, including terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. (thesimonscenter.org)
  • Last week, the President's National Security Advisor, Susan E. Rice, spoke on the whole-of-government strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) while addressing cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (thesimonscenter.org)
  • July 28, 1971 - October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Baghdadi rose to prominence in ISIL after his detainment in 2004 with Al Qaeda commanders at the American Camp Bucca in Iraq . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Rogachev used the older name ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) for the group that was also known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and that is now acting simply under the name Islamic State (IS). (rt.com)
  • But ISIL was apparently just an attempt by ISI (which is having a hard time in Iraq) to grab some glory, recruits, cash and power by poaching JN members. (strategypage.com)
  • Their name is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (arabnews.com)
  • Speaking from Albu Kamal on the Iraq border, Hussein said ISIL seeks to crush Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate, and control the eastern, energy-rich province of Deir Ezzor bordering Iraq. (arabnews.com)
  • Rooted in Al-Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL split from the network after overall Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri ordered it to stop fighting Al-Nusra. (arabnews.com)
  • He also said some rebel commanders in Albu Kamal, a key crossing point between Iraq and Syria still beyond ISIL control, "have sworn oaths of loyalty to ISIL. (arabnews.com)
  • and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist organization. (ucsb.edu)
  • The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group claimed responsibility for the attack. (aljazeera.com)
  • ISIL has intensified attacks over the past month in areas out of its control in efforts to weaken a large-scale military offensive launched last month to retake Mosul, the last major city under its control in Iraq. (aljazeera.com)
  • As you are all aware, this week 36 of our shipmates' names and addresses were posted on a website claiming to be friendly to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) cause. (fly.dev)
  • The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is a militant Islamic jihadist group originally created in April 2013 as a stronger, more violent offshoot of al-Qaeda. (natoassociation.ca)
  • Although they first emerged in Syria, the ISIS is now making significant military gains in the Republic of Iraq as well. (natoassociation.ca)
  • According to BBC, the last "S" in the ISIS acronym refers to "al-Sham," a geographic area that can include the Levant, Syria or Damascus. (natoassociation.ca)
  • Overall, the broad objective for the ISIS appears to be the creation of a large Islamic Caliphate that would include areas of both Iraq and Syria. (natoassociation.ca)
  • The ISIS is led in their efforts by a middle aged man by the named of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi who has organized the factionalized extremist groups in Iraq and Syria into a united fighting force. (natoassociation.ca)
  • Now considered the most dangerous military group in the world, the ISIS has gradually solidified its control in Iraq via capitalizing on the massive security vacuum that has followed in the wake of American departure from the region. (natoassociation.ca)
  • If Iran's efforts are unsuccessful, however, an ISIS victory in Iraq might also implicate NATO in the conflict. (natoassociation.ca)
  • In our ongoing series, Issues That Matter, we are taking a closer look at the United States' fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). (cbsnews.com)
  • The State Department says ISIS has lost about 78 percent of its territory in Iraq and 58 percent in Syria since its peak in 2014. (cbsnews.com)
  • But the war against ISIS is not contained within the borderlines of Syria and Iraq. (cbsnews.com)
  • He said the overall effort to fight ISIS will shift from the "military phase in Iraq and Syria to law enforcement, intelligence and sharing information. (cbsnews.com)
  • We have 19,000 names now of known terrorists who either joined ISIS or tried to join ISIS, trying to move into Iraq and Syria, and we want to make sure that every law enforcement agency, every border patrol officer can check a database and stop these people in routine traffic stops, as they're trying to cross borders," McGurk said. (cbsnews.com)
  • U.S. commandos have captured a chemical weapons expert for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. (cbsnews.com)
  • The Obama administration launched the new strategy in December, deploying a commando force to Iraq that it said would be dedicated to capturing and killing ISIS leaders in clandestine operations, as well as generating intelligence leading to more raids. (cbsnews.com)
  • Other unverified reports in both Iraq and Syria accuse ISIS of using chemical agents on the battlefield. (cbsnews.com)
  • The United States has been leading a coalition waging airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria for more than a year. (cbsnews.com)
  • Last year, U.S. special forces killed a key ISIS leader and captured his wife in a raid in Syria, but the new force in Iraq was intended as a more dedicated deployment. (cbsnews.com)
  • ISIS militants have been fighting the Taliban for the last six years as they attempt to annex their own piece of Afghanistan following the collapse of their caliphate in Syria and Iraq following Western airstrikes and raids targeting the terror group. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The roots of ISIS trace back to 2004, when the organization known as "al Qaeda in Iraq" formed. (history.com)
  • In 2013, the group officially renamed themselves "ISIS," which stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria," because they had expanded into Syria. (history.com)
  • ISIS rule spread quickly throughout Iraq and Syria. (history.com)
  • In 2014, ISIS took control of Falluja, Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq, and declared itself a caliphate, which is a political and religious territory ruled by a leader known as a caliph. (history.com)
  • ISIS fighters attacked a northern town in Iraq that was home to the Yazidis, a minority religious group, in August 2014. (history.com)
  • ISIS, Iran, Iraq, and including looking into the interior of Russia (e.g., think intel on CENTER-2015, the largest Russian field exercise since ZAPAD-81). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Most people use ISIS which means the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (raptureready.com)
  • The Levant Quartet was a formal economic and cultural partnership of Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan formed in December 2010. (wikipedia.org)
  • Daesh is causing havoc in Iraq and Syria and potentially could destabilize Jordan and Lebanon precisely because the Levantine state is on the verge of collapse. (lobelog.com)
  • The depression brought with it rain and snowfalls in large parts of Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq , amidst large accumulations of snow in many heights. (arabiaweather.com)
  • The Levant is a broad geographical region that includes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine , Israel and Jordan. (history.com)
  • Sometimes included in the region are Egypt, Iraq and Turkey. (joshuaproject.net)
  • Prior to taking up his new role, Savio was Sales Manager and Channel Leader for the Egypt, Qatar and Levant region. (zawya.com)
  • Savio is an excellent leader who brings experience, energy and determination to the role," said Raif Abou Diab, Managing Director - Egypt, Qatar and Levant region, HPE. (zawya.com)
  • ISIL's long-time ambition of creating an area under its control stretching across Syria and Iraq was undermined by a massive January offensive against it by rival Islamist rebels. (arabnews.com)
  • Also planned was a customs union called Shamgen, a pun on Sham and the EU's Schengen Agreement, in which Iran and Iraq would participate by issuing joint visas with Turkey and Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Iran has already sent two battalions of Iranian Revolutionary Guards into Iraq as a means by which to aid the Iraqi government during the crisis. (natoassociation.ca)
  • The toxic rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran is playing out on the battlefields of Yemen and Syria, and in the dysfunctional politics of Iraq and Lebanon, with each side resorting to sectarian rhetoric. (foxnews.com)
  • In the Levant and Turkey , the dunam is 1,000 square metres (10,764 sq ft), which is 1 decare . (wikipedia.org)
  • The Syrian al Qaeda problems began in June 2013 when the head of al Qaeda (bin Laden successor Ayman al Zawahiri) declared the recent merger of the new (since January) Syrian Jabhat al Nusra (JN) with the decade old Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) unacceptable and ordered the two groups to remain separate. (strategypage.com)
  • This group was the forerunner of Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a group formed by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi in 2004 which took part in the Iraqi insurgency against American-led forces and their Iraqi allies following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (loc.gov)
  • So far, two-thirds of coalition airstrikes have been in Iraq, as have the bulk of our capacity building efforts. (politico.com)
  • We conducted as many airstrikes in two months in Afghanistan in 2001 as we have in 16 months in Iraq and Syria. (politico.com)
  • After excelling in this role, he was promoted to Territory Channel Manager covering Lebanon and Iraq. (zawya.com)
  • He has been working in the Middle East since 1999, with excavations and surveys conducted in Syria (in particular at Qatna and Palmyra), Oman, Lebanon and Iraq (Kurdistan Region). (units.it)
  • The legal definition was "forty standard paces in length and breadth", [1] but its actual area varied considerably from place to place, from a little more than 900 square metres (9,700 sq ft) in Ottoman Palestine to around 2,500 square metres (27,000 sq ft) in Iraq . (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, billions of dollars in US aid to Iraq following the 2003 invasion have not been accounted for. (lobelog.com)
  • The U.S. invasion of Iraq began in 2003, and the aim of al Qaeda in Iraq was to remove Western occupation and replace it with a Sunni Islamist regime. (history.com)
  • The standoff worsened after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which toppled a Sunni-led dictatorship that had long been seen as a bulwark against Iran's efforts to export its revolution. (foxnews.com)
  • This isn t surprising because 60% of all Christians have fled the carnage of Iraq after the American led invasion and at no time did this concern the political hierarchy in Washington. (theseoultimes.com)
  • The collapse of the Levant states in the next decade is not unthinkable. (lobelog.com)
  • These include the genocide of Yazidis in Iraq, extensive sexual slavery, organized rape , floggings, and systematic executions. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • National political identity, with which citizens in the Levant have identified for decades, has devolved mostly into tribal, ethnic, geographic, and sectarian identities. (lobelog.com)
  • There has been a surge in sectarian violence in Iraq since the army raided a Sunni anti-government protest camp near the northern town of Hawija last month, killing an estimated 50 people. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The crumbling Levant poses a greater danger than Daesh and must be addressed-first and foremost by the states of the region. (lobelog.com)
  • The geographical term, Levant, refers to a multi-national region that includes Israel. (raptureready.com)
  • In 2018, he was assigned a new Sales Manager role across the Gulf & Levant region. (zawya.com)
  • World Bank analysts saw "sizable" benefits for the Levantine countries from the expected increase in trade that the Levant Quartet would have generated, had the Syrian Civil War not halted it. (wikipedia.org)
  • [6] Overall, as of mid-2015, about three-quarters of all suicide attacks occurred in just three countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • Arab weather - The countries of the Levant and Iraq were affected on Wednesday 01/26-2022 by a polar air depression classified as a fourth degree according to the innovative classification index for the severity of air depressions in Arab weather. (arabiaweather.com)
  • During the 2003-2011 Iraq War, it joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council, which consolidated further into the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) shortly afterwards. (loc.gov)
  • However, the violent attempts by the Islamic State of Iraq to govern its territory led to a backlash from Sunni Iraqis and other insurgent groups in around 2008 which helped to propel the Awakening movement and a temporary decline in the group. (loc.gov)
  • Al-Baghdadi is believed to have been born near Samarra , Iraq, on July 28, 1971 [27] [28] as the third of four sons in the family. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • There are a lot of operational options between what we did in Iraq and what we didn't do in Libya. (politico.com)
  • Lavrov made this statement during the Paris conference dedicated to the situation in Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State group. (rt.com)
  • When Zarqawi was killed during a U.S. airstrike in 2006, Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri became the new leader and renamed the group "ISI," which stood for "Islamic State of Iraq. (history.com)
  • Many Middle Eastern and European governments have used this Arabic acronym for "al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham," which translates to "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria," to address the group. (history.com)
  • BEIRUT: Jihadists have launched a fresh bid to take over the Syria-Iraq border area and set up a so-called Islamic state they can control, rebels, activists and a monitoring group say. (arabnews.com)
  • In April 2013, the group changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (loc.gov)
  • These were in addition to five other Grade 3 emergencies: the complex humanitarian crisis in Iraq (graded in August 2014), the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (graded in July 2014) and the conflicts in Central African Republic (graded in December 2013), South Sudan (graded in February 2014) and Syrian Arab Republic (graded in January 2013). (who.int)
  • If the Sunnis and Kurds are to be represented across all state institutions in Iraq, regional states with Washington's help should urge Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to complete the formation of his new government on the basis of equity and fairness. (lobelog.com)
  • Instability in the Levant was guaranteed when two formerly secular governments in Teheran and Ankara succumbed to their worst religious instincts. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the story of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war. (abramsbooks.com)
  • That is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left Iraq. (democracynow.org)
  • Corruption is rampant across most state institutions in the Levant, including the military and the key financial and banking systems. (lobelog.com)
  • And we're just as focused on that as we are on the military side in Iraq and Syria. (cbsnews.com)
  • But when the Golden Square-four Iraqi generals allegiant to the Axis cause-staged a coup in Iraq, elevating a pro-German junta and prompting military cooperation between Vichy French-occupied Syria and Lebanon and the Axis, disaster loomed. (abramsbooks.com)
  • Russia will not "buy tickets" to the international coalition that is being created by the US to fight the Islamic State, but will continue its aid to Iraq, Syria and other nations that are fighting terrorists on the spot. (rt.com)
  • Russia supports Iraq and its help has already allowed this country to improve its defenses markedly. (rt.com)
  • Their goal is to link together the two areas (Syria, Iraq) to set up their state and then to continue spreading," said activist and citizen journalist Abdel Salam Hussein. (arabnews.com)
  • The latest attack "highlights just how difficult it is to guarantee any kind of security in certain areas of Iraq", Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Dohuk in northern Iraq, said. (aljazeera.com)
  • America, not content with the deadly carnage of over 100,000 people being killed in Iraq, and knowing that sectarianism haunts this nation, is still intent on spreading disinformation and more chaos to the Middle East. (theseoultimes.com)
  • Political systems in the Levant are often propped up by domestic ruling elites, regional states, and foreign powers for a variety of parochial and transnational interests. (lobelog.com)
  • All the papers have passed a double blind peer-review process and provide significant contributions on a number of topics - among which material culture (e.g. pottery tradition and architecture), settlement pattern, social changes, cultural transmission and economic dynamics - that are of fundamental importance for the archaeology of Mesopotamia and the Levant. (units.it)
  • They have used children inside Iraq to blow up children's soccer games, to attack ice cream parlors of families going to get - celebrate the Eid [holiday]. (cbsnews.com)
  • According to the UN mission in Iraq, "the number of people killed in recent days may run into the hundreds and the number of wounded is said to be approaching one thousand. (natoassociation.ca)
  • [22] His surname literally means "The one from Baghdad" and denotes that he was from Baghdad city or Baghdad governorate in Iraq . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Levant Arab society is patrilineal, which means that inheritances are passed down through the males. (joshuaproject.net)
  • By any measure, our strategy in Iraq and Syria is not succeeding, or is not succeeding fast enough. (politico.com)
  • Second, we need a "Syria-first" strategy to replace the Iraq-first strategy we've been pursuing. (politico.com)