One Minute ISIL: all you need to know
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr tells you all you need to know about the armed group.
Published On 10 Jun 2015
Of all the armed groups in the Middle East, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is probably the deadliest and the most successful.
It has redrawn the map in the Middle East, erasing the Iraq and Syrian border, and is able to move freely between the two countries.
Keep reading
list of 4 itemsRussia vetoes UN resolution to extend sanctions, monitoring in Mali
Kyrgyzstan brings back 95 ISIL wives, children from Syrian internment camps
Iraq executes three for 2016 ISIL blast that killed hundreds
ISIL started via al-Qaeda in Iraq, the child of the United States occupation of the country since 2003.
In fact, many ISIL heads, including its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were US prisoners in Iraq.
But the US couldn’t keep a lid on the sectarian divide in Iraq or manage the security vacuum.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr tells you all you need to know about the armed group.
Source: Al Jazeera