Islamic State

 

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Islamic State

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From the group's Arabic-language name, الدَّوْلَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة (ad-dawla l-ʔislāmiyya, literally “the Islamic State”).

the Islamic State

1. A Salafist group active in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state.
2. The unrecognized state (caliphate) proclaimed by this group.

• IS (abbreviation)
• Daesh, Da'esh, Daish, Da'ish (exonym, also derogatory)
• ISIS, Isis, ISIL (former name)
• Islamic State in Iraq / ISI (former name)
• al-Qaeda in Iraq / AQI (former name)

• IS (abbreviation)