IS: A persistent danger, 10 years since its peak
More than 140 people were killed in an IS attack on a concert hall in Moscow in March/ It is exactly 10 years since the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group proclaimed its caliphate, announced to the world days later by its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from the Nuri Mosque in Mosul. Also known as Isis or Daesh in Arabic, the group took over huge swathes of Syria and Iraq, imposing its severe version of Shariah (Islamic law), meting out cruel punishments and murders, then posting the videos online. For the next five years, IS was able to ...
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