Islamic State (ISIS)

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou,

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

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Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou,

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

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First published: 27 September 2022

https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm579

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Abstract

The Islamic State (al-Dawla al-Islamiyya) is a transnational nonstate radical Sunni neo-Salafist Islamist armed group primarily active in the period 2013–2017 in Iraq, in Syria, and internationally. The group, which came to be known formally as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria/the Levant (ISIS or ISIL, al-Dawla al-Islamiyya fi'l-Iraq wa'l-Shaam) in 2013–2014, was an offshoot of the transnational radical Islamist organization, al-Qaeda.

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