But first, what is the name of this entity and what are the borders of the Islamic State? The anatomy of ISIS: How the 'Islamic State' is run, from oil to beheadings: http://t.co/43B3p4BJ4Wpic.twitter.com/w4vVp1axKP. Put another way, Guevara arguably was the first theorist to really latch on to the idea of violence as fundamentally communicative. “Today, with the grace of Allah, we are redrawing the map of the Islamic world to become one state under the banner of the caliphate.”– A 2001 video from bin Laden, reposted by followers in 2014; via Long War Journal, “It has always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established in the manner of the Prophet in the heart of the Islamic world.”–Ayman al Zawahiri’s 2005 letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, “…the Jihad in Iraq requires several incremental goals: The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq.


During the group’s last battles in the Euphrates River Valley, ISIS’s fighting force was reduced to only one, renamed Jaish Khalid (after the famous 7th-century Muslim commander Khalid bin al-Waleed), with around 4,000 active fighters. ISIS has attempted to govern its territories, establishing court systems, schools, social services, and local governments. Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden used charisma, fatwas and rhetoric to rally jihadists around the world.
Black market sale of cultural artifacts is estimated 200 million per year.

The two rival jihadist groups share the goal of forming a global caliphate. Why they matter: The statues date to the 8th century and were seated at the entrance gate of Arslan Tash, which was conquered by the Assyrians in 9th century BC and had been part of an Iron Age kingdom.

Yet they have diverse goals and different constituencies. Shortly before this time period, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was arrested and detained in a US detention facility in Iraq (Feb 2004-Dec 2004) alongside many other disgruntled Sunnis and former Baathist members who were looking for ways to re-assert political power.

ISIS leadership has direct command and control over its fighters in Iraq and Syria, though its ability to direct its affiliates abroad is unclear. Without creating a chasm between the IS and the local population, and without reaching a long and lasting political solution that will put an end to Sunni-Shiite rivalries in Iraq and to the conflict in Syria, the chances of success will remain negligible. The magazine claims that “this has always been the roadmap towards Khilafah (caliphate)” and criticizes “other famous jihad groups” who do not attempt to capture and rule territory. Recently, the Islamic State (ISIS) released a video describing how it sees its government structure.

To sign up for the ISIS 2020 newsletter, click, is a Nonresident Fellow with the Center for Global Policy (CGP). An ancient Bronze Age site located on the western bank of the Euphrates River near Syria's border with Iraq, Known damage: severely looted; satellite imagery shows over 1,200 pits dug into this once-intact site. Abu Muhammad                 Basher Isma’il al Hamdani                                             Prisoners and detainees, 3. ISIS’s financial base comes from a variety of sources, mainly through the trade of vital oil and gas resources (with an estimated 1.8 million pounds a day revenue), taxation of its local populous (an estimated 900 million pounds per year), illegal drug-trading (with estimates as a high as 1 billion dollar a year revenue) and through looting of captured territories. Known damage: at least partially damaged by power tools, Why they matter: Also known as "lamassu", the winged bulls date to the early 7th century BC and guarded a principal gateway to the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh. In natural science there will be no mention of Darwin or Darwinism. ISIS claims affiliates in Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Tunisia, North Caucasus. Dr. Husham al-Hashimi is a Nonresident Fellow with the Center for Global Policy (CGP). In 1981, he was imprisoned in connection with the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar al Sadat.

Funds coming from the extortion of local businesses and agriculture are estimated to be around 5 million pounds per month. ISIS also has a sharia council, as well as councils responsible for security, military affairs, media, and finance. These include the Central Bank of Syria, Commercial Bank of Syria, and Syria International Islamic Bank. Looting took place, and then the razing,". ISIS also believes in an apocalyptic ‘end of times’ prophecy and sees itself as a vanguard element duty-bound to bring about its occurrence by way of violent jihad. Dr. al-Hashimi is a leading security expert focusing on Islamist movements who advised the U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State. 10 historical sites destroyed by ISIS and why they matter.

The origins of ISIS can largely be traced back to the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and its subsequent exit.

Rathwan Talib Hussein al Hamduni (Abu Juma), borders close to the IS, 5. Below is a list of some of what's been lost. He was trained as a doctor, but became active in Islamist groups during his teenage years. Cabinet (Abu Abdul Kadr, Abu Louy, Abu Salah, Abu Hajar ai-Assafi, Abu Kassem, Abu Abdul Rahman, Al-Bilawi): Abu Bakr’s self-appointed team of advisors. © 2016 Atlantic Council All rights reserved.

According to the maps published by the Islamic State, the Islamic State will include Andalus in the West (Spain) and stretch from North Africa — the Maghreb — (and the whole of West Africa including Nigeria) through Libya and Egypt (considered one geographical unit – Ard Al-Kinana), include what is called in Islamic state terminology, Ard el Habasha (from Cameroon in  the west, Central Africa, the Victoria lake states, Ethiopia and Somalia), the Hijaz (Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States), Yemen until Khurasan in the east – defined as the Central Asian Muslim Republics beginning with Azerbaijan and including Pakistan and the South west part of China, land of the Muslims of Turkish origin, the Uyghurs.

Abu Suja                              ‘Abd el Rahman al Afari                                                   Coordinator Martyrs and Women, 3. However, since the declaration in Summer 2014 of the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate headed by Ibrahim ‘Awad Ibrahim Al Badri al Samarra’i, alias Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — now the self-declared “Caliph Ibrahim” — ISIS has been transformed into the “Islamic State” (Al Dawla Al Islamiya ) in order to stress the fact that the Caliphate is not to be limited to Iraq, Syria, Israel (Palestine), Jordan  and the Levant, but its ambitions lie well beyond those limited borders. Ten historical sites destroyed by ISIS and why they matter. Sign up for the New Atlanticist newsletter, which showcases expert analysis from the Atlantic Council community on the most important global issues. The Islamic State Institution for Public Information: Headed by Abu Al Athir Omru al Abbassi. The rate of operations involving one or more child or youth is likewise increasing. He reportedly received jihadist training in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, when he lived with Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Kabul. Salafis regard non-Muslim jahil (or ‘ignorant’) as either being culpably ignorant, and therefore punishable, and non-culpably ignorant, and therefore non-punishable and able to reach salvation, depending upon the individual’s exposure to and reasonable chance of understanding the Koran. They don’t like selfies (In Europe, over half of Facebook users post selfies, but only 1% of potential recruits do). The initial aim of AQI was to target Shia innocents in an attempt to draw the US into a protracted war in Iraq that would then function as a means of mobilizing the remainder of the Iraqi-Sunni populace against the US military and Malaki government. The customer gives a hawala broker in one city a sum of money along with instructions for receipt (usually a password).

In order to properly understand ISIS’s specific actions, it is helpful for us to understand the broader military distinction between strategic, operational, and tactical levels of combat. Col. Known damage: the contents of at least two rooms were destroyed with sledgehammers and by other methods, Why it matters: The museum houses relics from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hatra, as well as artifacts from Nineveh. Abu Kifah                              Khairy ‘Abd Mahmoud al Taey                                     Operations using improvised explosive devices and rigging bombs, (All under the Authority of Al-Anbari and Turkmani), 1. Abu Kassem                          ‘Abdullah Ahmad al Meshedani                                   Arrival of the Arab and foreign Jihadists, “transporter of suicide bombers”, 7.

The Islamic State includes also Iran and Turkey (named Anadol) in their entirety and parts of Europe (mainly the Balkans, more or less conforming to the borders of the defunct Ottoman Empire with the Austro-Hungarian territories).

It consists of a well-preserved complex of temples that blend Hellenistic and Roman architecture with Eastern decorative features. These radical changes do not seem to create any discord between the IS and the Jihadists coming from abroad. The receiver then approaches the hawalador on the receiving end and gives him the password along with a small commission and the hawalador pays the receiver the agreed upon transferred amount. Known individually as “al-rabta” (connector) these couriers represent key points of vulnerability within the organization and have caused many problems for the group since inception. "The Islamists" is a book and website on the origins, evolution, and positions of Islamist movements in the Middle East. . All this being said, we can now better understand how specific tactics are meant to feed into ISIS’s higher strategic aims and ideological ends. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. ISIS now consists of 14 wilayat, five ministries and one department (for immigration and administration of the remote wilayat).

With respect to terror tactics specifically, ISIS’s terror tactics have been inextricably linked to its exploitation of the recent advent of social media. REUTERS/Stringer (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST ) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. For instance, in summer of 2016, US Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland estimated ISIS’s troop strength to be as low as 15,000 and as high as 20,000. Follow them on their website raqqa-sl.com/en/, on Twitter @Raqqa_SL, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Raqqa.Sl.

Paint was still preserved, as was written documentation about how its construction was organized. Importantly, both Iraqi and U.S. intelligence sources confirmed that the new leader of ISIS, identified by the group only as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, is Ameer Muhammed Saeed al-Salbi al-Mawla, a long-standing leader from Tal Afar in northern Iraq. At the height of its strength in Iraq and Syria, in December 2014, ISIS had 36,000 fighters divided into three “armies:” Jaish al-Khilafa (the Caliphate Army), Jaish al-Usra (named after the last campaign ordered by Prophet Muhammad), and Jaish Dabiq (named after the town in northern Syria mentioned in reports attributed to the Prophet’s sayings). For instance, in 2014, with the taking of Mosul, ISIS acquired an estimated 240 million pounds worth of currency from Iraqi banks. Known damage: Iraqi antiquities director Qais Rasheed told Reuters: "The city walls were razed, and some elements of the temples, but we don't know the exact extent (of the damage).

But formal affiliates are required to consult with al Qaeda’s core leadership before carrying out large-scale attacks. 1.1.

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