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ISIS: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
ISIL: The Islamic State of Iraq
and Levant
Quick Facts
ISIS started as an al Qaeda splinter group
The aim of ISIS is to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and in
Syria
Known for killing dozens of people and doing public executions, crucifixions
and other acts of such
Has taken over large swaths of northern and western Iraq
Controls hundreds of miles
Leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Very little known about him, but a biography posted on jihadist websites in
2013 revealed that he acquired a doctorate in Islamic Studies
Formed a militant group in Salaheddin and Diyala north of Iraqi until joining
al Qaeda in Iraq
Was in a US run prison in Iraq called Camp Bucca for 4 years, and was
released in 2009
Goes by the name Al-Khalifah Ibrahim with his followers since the declaration
of the "Islamic State
Timeline
2004 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi establishes al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
June 7, 2006 - Al-Zarqawi is killed in a U.S. strike. Abu Ayyub al-Masri takes
his place as leader of AQI.
October 2006 - AQI leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri announces the creation of
Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), and establishes Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as its
leader.
April 2010 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi becomes leader of ISI after Abu Omar alBaghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri are killed in a U.S.-Iraqi operation.
April 8, 2013 - ISI declares its absorption of an al Qaeda-backed militant
group in Syria known as the al-Nusra Front. Al-Baghdadi names his group the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
February 3, 2014 - Al Qaeda renounces ties to ISIS after months of
infighting between al-Nusra Front and ISIS.

May 2014 - ISIS kidnaps more than 140 Kurdish schoolboys in Syria, forcing
them to take lessons in radical Islamic theology.
June 10, 2014 - ISIS takes control of Mosul.
June 11, 2014 - ISIS takes control of Tikrit.
June 21, 2014 - ISIS takes control of Al-Qaim as well as three other Iraqi
towns.
June 29, 2014 - ISIS announces the creation of an Islamic State that erases
all state borders, making al-Baghdadi the self-declared authority over the
world's estimated 1.5 billion Muslims.
June 30, 2014 - An estimated 1.2 million Iraqis are forced from their houses.
June 30, 2014 - The United States sends an additional 300 troops to Iraq,
bringing the total U.S. forces in Iraq to nearly 800.
July 3, 2014 ISIS takes control of Syrias largest oil field and can produce
75,000 barrels of oil daily.
July 17, 2014 - ISIS claims to have killed 270 people after storming and
seizing the Shaer gas field.
July 24, 2014 - ISIS militants blow up Jonah's tomb, a holy site in Mosul.
August 8, 2014 - President Barack Obama has authorized "targeted
airstrikes" if needed to protect the United States.
August 19, 2014 - In a video posted on YouTube, U.S. journalist James Foley
is decapitated by ISIS militants. The militants then threaten the life of
another captured U.S. journalist, believed to be Steven Sotloff.
September 2, 2014 - ISIS releases a video showing the beheading of U.S.
journalist Steven Sotloff.

September 11, 2014 - The CIA announces that the number of people
fighting for ISIS may be more than three times the previous estimates.
September 13, 2014 - ISIS militants post video on a website showing the
execution of British aid worker David Haines. ISIS releases a statement
toward British Prime Minister David Cameron, threatening more destruction if
Britian continues its "evil alliance with America."