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Islamic State of Iraq
Description
Islamic State of Iraq The Islamic State of Iraq, is an umbrella organization of a number of Iraqi insurgent groups established on October 15, 2006. The group is composed of and supported by a variety of insurgency groups, including its predecessor, the Mujahideen Shura Council, Al-Qaeda, Jeish al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba, Katbiyan Ansar Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah, Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura, etc., and other clans whose population is of Sunni faith. It aims to establish a caliphate in the Sunni dominated regions of Iraq. It claims a significant presence in the governorates of Al Anbar and Ninawa, both bordering the unstable country of Syria, as well as Kirkuk, most of Salah ad Din, and parts of Babil, Diyala, and Baghdad, etc. It initially claimed Baqubah as its capital. (via Freebase)
 
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Articles Around the Web
Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility for massacre of Syrian soldiers
Foreign Policy
— Mar 12 at 01:05 pm
...But then, senior Obama officials run to the New York Times by the dozens, demand (and receive) anonymity, and then spout all sorts of claims abo...
Dozens killed across Iraq
The Telegraph
— Apr 15 at 01:22 pm
...were other attacks in the towns of Nasiriyah and Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein. The attacks fit the typical pattern of the Islamic St...
Deadliest Iraq attacks timeline
Bangkok Post
— Dec 17, 2012 at 03:45 pm
...attacks in 18 cities, claimed by Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq (the |SI), kill 113 people. - 2: Twenty members of the security ...
Spate of Iraq car bombs kill 17
AlterNet.org
— Jan 22 at 11:12 am
...town of Tuz Khurmatu. The violence came after four days of relative calm in Iraq following a spate of attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda's front group,...