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“It is incumbent upon all Muslims to pledge allegiance to (him) and support him.The legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organizations, becomes null by the expansion of the khalifah‘s authority and arrival of its troops to their areas,” the statement said. In Syria they have captured territory in the north and east, along the frontier with Iraq.
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“The impact of this announcement will be global as al-Qaeda affiliates and independent jihadist groups must now definitively choose to support and join the Islamic State or to oppose it.”įighters from the group overran the Iraqi city of Mosul last month and have advanced towards Baghdad. “Whatever judgments are made in terms of its legitimacy, (the) announcement that it has restored the Caliphate is likely the most significant development in international jihadism since 9/11.
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“Accordingly, the “Iraq and Sham” (Levant) in the name of the Islamic State is henceforth removed from all official deliberations and communications, and the official name is the Islamic State from the date of this declaration,” he said.Ĭharles Lister, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, saw considerable significance in the move. “He is the imam and khalifah (Caliph) for the Muslims everywhere,” the group’s spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said in the statement, which was translated into several languages and an Arabic audio speech. The group, previously the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, has renamed itself “Islamic State” and proclaimed its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghadi as “Caliph” - the head of the state, the statement said. The move is an expansion of the group’s ambitions to wage a holy war and posed a direct challenge to the central leadership of al-Qaeda, which has already disowned it. Yet, ISIS remains, hiding amid the rubble, threatening anyone who works with the government.An offshoot of al-Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic “Caliphate” and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a statement posted on jihadist websites said today. The people waiting in her office are in desperate need of just about every public service, from power, to running water, and housing.Īs a woman, under ISIS, she would never have been allowed this kind of public leadership role. She is co-chair of the Raqqa Civil Council. Making life bearable for the survivors is Leila Mustafa's mission. The reality is that we will likely never know how many civilians died in this war, how many bodies around here will never be pulled from the rubble. This neighborhood was a residential one, these apartment buildings, in the distance, upper-middle class homes. It's only by walking through neighborhoods like this that you can truly grasp the cost of the war against ISIS, and particularly in Raqqa city. U.S.-led coalition airstrikes hammered the city, and U.S.-backed Syrian fighters on the ground fought house-to-house in bloody battles.īy the time it was over, four months later, the city was destroyed. In June 2017, the campaign to drive ISIS out of Raqqa was launched. More than 4,000 bodies of ISIS fighters and civilians have been discovered in the city, they tell us. These men wrestle lumps of concrete and steel to find whatever remains of the people who were at home here when the bombs hit, their tools no more advanced than what you might find in a garden shed. In this building, a family says a loved one is still buried. Back in the city, teams are still pulling more bodies from the ruins of buildings destroyed by the airstrikes.