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Williams, Kayla M. Willis, Henry H. Yayla, Ahmet S. Young, William Zeigler, Sean M. Zeman, Jalen Zimmerman, S. Jul 7, Jun 25, Apr 2, Apr 1, Research Brief The Role of U. The two militant groups have engaged in attacks on each other. The Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan earlier this month, has been guarding the perimeter of the Kabul airport, where evacuations of Americans and Afghan allies were taking place.
Latest from Afghanistan: U. Douglas London, the CIA's former top counterterrorism chief for the region, including Afghanistan, said the threat posed by ISIS-K is now higher because of the vacuum created after the Taliban toppled the Afghan government within a matter of days. The Pentagon inspector general, in a report released last week, noted ISIS-K had lashed out in the last months of the Afghan government, seizing on its weakness.
It mounted six major attacks in the Afghan capital in , 18 attacks in and 24 in , the official said. Its attacks have continued to intensify. They represent a competitor for resources, materials and power, even though they're relatively small. On May 8, ISIS-K attacked a school for girls in Kabul and killed at least 68 people, wounding more than than , most of them girls, according to a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment cited by the inspector general.
A suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into the school's gate, and, as the children fled, additional bombs exploded.
Before the withdrawal of U. ISIS hates this religious group the most. Iraqis recount horrors of being human shields for ISIS. ISIS calls on Saudi supporters to kill relatives. Iraqi town suffering from ISIS chemical attack. Started as an al Qaeda splinter group. Read More. The group implements Sharia Law, rooted in eighth-century Islam, to establish a society that mirrors the region's ancient past.
ISIS uses modern tools like social media to promote reactionary politics and religious fundamentalism. Fighters destroy holy sites and valuable antiquities as their leaders propagate a return to the early days of Islam.
ISIS's revenue comes from oil production and smuggling, taxes, ransoms from kidnappings, selling stolen artifacts, extortion and controlling crops. June 7, - Zarqawi is killed in a US strike.
June 28, - Iraqi Kurdistan restricts border crossings into the region for refugees. June 29, - ISIS announces the creation of a caliphate Islamic state that erases all state borders, making Baghdadi the self-declared authority over the world's estimated 1.
The group also announces a name change to the Islamic State IS. ISIS declares 'Caliphate' June 30, - The Pentagon announces the United States is sending an additional troops to Iraq , bringing the total US forces in Iraq to nearly Troops and military advisers are sent to Iraq to support Iraqi security forces and help protect the US Embassy and the airport in Baghdad. July - ISIS takes control of Syria's largest oilfield and seizes a gas field in the Homs Province, storming the facility and killing dozens of workers.
Militants conquer a mile stretch of Syrian towns , from Deir Ezzor to the Iraq border. In Mosul, they blow up Jonah's tomb , a holy site dating back to the 8th century BC. More than 30, Yazidi families are stranded in the Sinjar Mountains.
A Yazidi lawmaker says that men have been killed, 70 children have died of thirst and women are being sold into slavery. US President Barack Obama authorizes "targeted airstrikes" if needed to protect US personnel and prevent potential genocide of minority groups.
The apparent executioner speaks in the same British accent as the man who purportedly killed Foley. January 22, - US diplomatic officials say that coalition airstrikes have killed an estimated 6, ISIS fighters. February 5, - Jordanian fighter jets carry out airstrikes over Syria, reportedly hitting ISIS training centers as well as arms and ammunition depots in Raqqa. ISIS posts a picture of a collapsed building and the terror group claims Mueller is buried in the rubble.
February 10, - Mueller's family announces she is dead , after receiving confirmation from ISIS, including a photo of her wrapped in a burial shroud.
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