...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (ISIS) seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, a considerable number of newly-converted Moslems from western countries flocked to the region to join the group.
ISIS enjoyed immense power and influence during its initial months of control, but was finally dislodged in 2017 with the help of an international coalition and local forces. Hundreds of imported muscle and their families were detained.