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The Islamic State: From al-Qaeda Affiliate to Caliphate
Ist Teil von
Middle East policy, 2014-12, Vol.21 (4), p.69-83
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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The dramatic victories in summer 2014 of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over rival groups fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad-and over the government of Iraq and Kurdish forces-culminated in the declaration of a caliphate, or the Islamic State. The international community became alarmed, and the lightning ISIS advance in Iraq was blunted in mid-August by U.S. air power. Air strikes were ramped up in September and October in both Iraq and Syria by the United States and an ad hoc coalition of Middle Eastern and European states. There has been a scramble by policy makers, militaries, intelligence officials and journalists from around the globe to understand the ISIS phenomenon, resulting in a profusion of unverified and contradictory information. This study, drawing from a multitude of open sources, seeks to provide a concise overview of the origins, ideology, goals and military operations of ISIS in Iraq and Syria from 2003 to the present in order to help governments understand and deal with this phenomenon. Adapted from the source document.