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Salafi jihadist militant organisation
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Da'esh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist militant organisation and internationally unrecognised former quasi-state. IS occupied a significant amount of territory in Syria during the Syrian Civil War and in Iraq after the U.S. troops withdrew. In 2014 the group proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate and claimed religious and political authority over all Muslims worldwide, a claim not accepted by the vast majority of Muslims.
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The US-led force has been operating in Iraq for 12 years to dismantle IS terrorist group networks which had threatened to take over the region and plunge it into instability.
Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group, which had seized large swathes of territory, committing massacres and forcing thousands of women and children into slavery.
After more than a decade, the US-led coalition yesterday ended its mission in Iraq, having helped save the country from the Islamic State (IS) while causing persistent friction. Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the IS, which had seized large swathes of both countries, and