Iraq crisis: what is the Islamic State?
Islamic State, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), has released a video in which it appears to execute kidnapped US journalist James Foley. The group has been making advances across Iraq and Syria since breaking away from al-Qaeda in 2013
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), also known as simply Islamic State, began life as an Iraqi franchise of al-Qaeda, a relatively minor force confined to fighting British and US troops in the areas around Baghdad.
The terrorist group, which released a video on Wednesday in which a British recruit appears to behead kidnapped US journalist James Foley, broke ties with al-Qaeda and rebranded as ISIS in April 2013.
ISIS then took advantage of the chaos caused by Syria's ongoing civil war to expand beyond Iraq's borders and recruit vast numbers of Syrian rebels.
IS, as it now calls itself, went on to a string of successful missions in March, wresting control of the Syrian city of Raqqa from Bashar al-Assad's army.
In January 2014 it took control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, in the western province of Anbar, and made siginifcant gains in the provincial capital Ramadi. Then in June Baghdadi's fighters, by now swelled by thousands of new recruits, dealt a spectacular blow to Baghdad's Shiite-led government by taking control of Iraq's second city Mosul.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891387/Iraq-crisis-what-is-the-Islamic-State.html
What:has released a video in which it appears to execute kidnapped US journalist James Foley
When:in 2013Who:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Where:Iraq
Key words:
1 execute 執行
2 franchise 專營權
3 recruit 招募
4 rebrand 更名
5 chaos 混亂
6 province 省
7 dealt 處理
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), also known as simply Islamic State, began life as an Iraqi franchise of al-Qaeda, a relatively minor force confined to fighting British and US troops in the areas around Baghdad.
The terrorist group, which released a video on Wednesday in which a British recruit appears to behead kidnapped US journalist James Foley, broke ties with al-Qaeda and rebranded as ISIS in April 2013.
ISIS then took advantage of the chaos caused by Syria's ongoing civil war to expand beyond Iraq's borders and recruit vast numbers of Syrian rebels.
IS, as it now calls itself, went on to a string of successful missions in March, wresting control of the Syrian city of Raqqa from Bashar al-Assad's army.
In January 2014 it took control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, in the western province of Anbar, and made siginifcant gains in the provincial capital Ramadi. Then in June Baghdadi's fighters, by now swelled by thousands of new recruits, dealt a spectacular blow to Baghdad's Shiite-led government by taking control of Iraq's second city Mosul.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891387/Iraq-crisis-what-is-the-Islamic-State.html
What:has released a video in which it appears to execute kidnapped US journalist James Foley
When:in 2013Who:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Where:Iraq
Key words:
1 execute 執行
2 franchise 專營權
3 recruit 招募
4 rebrand 更名
5 chaos 混亂
6 province 省
7 dealt 處理
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891387/Iraq-crisis-what-is-the-Islamic-State.html
What:has released a video in which it appears to execute kidnapped US journalist James Foley
When:in 2013Who:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Where:Iraq
Key words:
1 execute 執行
2 franchise 專營權
3 recruit 招募
4 rebrand 更名
5 chaos 混亂
6 province 省
7 dealt 處理
I cannot understand the reason why the terrorist group wants to do the terrible thing.
回覆刪除I think western countries should protect their citizen carefully.
Hope no one would be sacrificed in the disaster again.
So far, there have been many terrorist attacks in western countries.
回覆刪除And many people had been sacrificed in these attacks.
I hope these countries come out with a good strategy to prevent terrorist attacks from happening again.
The terrorists in the world keep doing threat to many country.
回覆刪除These kind of behavior always hurt innocent people, hoping that there will be no more terrorist attacks in the world anymore.