Territory 78.000 km2 Income 2.912.000.000 Media output 892 Mediacenters 45 Pro ISIL twitter 11.902 Magazines 14 Western fighters 2.330 Eastern fighters 13.631 Ready to radicalise 73.992 Assault rifle types 6 Sniper rifle types 5 Machine gun types 5
DAESH
An ISIL data visualisation 2013 - 2016 Explosives 18 Different vehicles 16 Suicides 398 Deaths 1.214 Injuries 723 Beheadings 306 ...
DAESH
An ISIL data visualisation 2013 - 2016
Gianni Van Dooren Masterproject 2015 - 2016 Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp
Territory 78.000 km2 Income 2.912.000.000 Media output 892 Mediacenters 45 Pro ISIL twitter 11.902 Magazines 14 Western fighters 2.330 Eastern fighters 13.631 Ready to radicalise 73.992 Assault rifle types 6 Sniper rifle types 5 Machine gun types 5
DAESH
An ISIL data visualisation 2013 - 2016 Explosives 18 Different vehicles 16 Suicides 398 Deaths 1.214 Injuries 723 Beheadings 306 ...
CONTENT 009 Foreword 017
Introduction Daesh
020 Territory 038 Financial 046
Media
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Foreign fighters
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Military equipment
108 Attacks
133 Sources 139 Colophon
FOREWORD The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), alternatively translated as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), is a Salafi jihadist militant group that follows an Islamic fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. The group is also known as Daesh, which is an acronym derived from its Arabic name ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī ‘l-’Irāq wa-sh-Shām.
subsequent possibility of a collapse of the Iraqi state prompted a renewal of US military action in the country. In Syria, the group has conducted ground attacks on both government forces and rebel factions. The number of fighters the group commands in Iraq and Syria was estimated by the CIA at 31,000, with foreign fighters accounting for around two thirds, while ISIL leaders claim 40,000 fighters, with the majority being Iraqi and Syrian nationals.
The group has referred to itself as the Islamic State or IS ever since it proclaimed a worldwide caliphate in June 2014 and named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as its caliph. As a caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide. The group’s adoption of the name “Islamic State” and idea of a caliphate have been widely criticised, with the United Nations, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups rejecting its statehood or caliphhood. As of December 2015, the group has control over vast landlocked territory in Iraq and Syria, with a population estimate ranging between 2.8 million and 8 million people and where it enforces its interpretation of sharia law. ISIL affiliates control small areas of Libya, Nigeria and Afghanistan and operate in other parts of the world, including North Africa and South Asia. ISIL gained prominence in early 2014 when it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in its Western Iraq offensive, followed by the capture of Mosul and the Sinjar massacre. The
Adept at social media, ISIL became notorious for its videos of beheadings of both soldiers and civilians, including journalists and aid workers, and for the destruction of cultural heritage sites. The United Nations holds ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and Amnesty International has charged the group with ethnic cleansing on a “historic scale” in northern Iraq.Around the world, Islamic religious leaders have overwhelmingly condemned ISIL’s ideology and actions, arguing that the group has strayed from the path of true Islam and that its actions do not reflect the religion’s real teachings or virtues. The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the United Nations, the European Union and its member states, the United States, India, Indonesia, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran and other countries. Over 60 countries are directly or indirectly waging war against ISIL.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), alternatively translated as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), is a Salafi jihadist militant group that follows an Islamic fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. The group is also known as Daesh, which is an acronym derived from its Arabic name ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī ‘l-’Irāq wa-sh-Shām.
the group commands in Iraq and Syria was estimated by the CIA at 31,000, with foreign fighters accounting for around two thirds, while ISIL leaders claim 40,000 fighters, with the majority being Iraqi The group originated as Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces. Joining other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council, it proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in October 2006. In August 2011, following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, ISI, under the leadership of al-Baghdadi, delegated a mission into Syria, which under the name al-Nusra Front established a large presence in Sunnimajority Al-Raqqah, Idlib, Deir ez-Zor, and Aleppo provinces. The merger of ISI with al-Nusra Front to form the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL), as announced in April 2013 by al-Baghdadi, was however rejected by al-Nusra leader al-Julani, and by al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri who subsequently cut all ties with ISIL, in February 2014.
The group has referred to itself as the Islamic State or IS ever since it proclaimed a worldwide caliphate in June 2014 and named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as its caliph. As a caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide. The group’s adoption of the name “Islamic State” and idea of a caliphate have been widely criticised, with the United Nations, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups rejecting its statehood or caliphhood. As of December 2015, the group has control over vast landlocked territory in Iraq and Syria, with a population estimate ranging between 2.8 million and 8 million people and where it enforces its interpretation of sharia law. ISIL affiliates control small areas of Libya, Nigeria and Afghanistan and operate in other parts of the world, including North Africa and South Asia. ISIL gained prominence in early 2014 when it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in its Western Iraq offensive, followed by the capture of Mosul and the Sinjar massacre. The subsequent possibility of a collapse of the Iraqi state prompted a renewal of US military action in the country. In Syria, the group has conducted ground attacks on both government forces and rebel factions. The number of fighters
Current name In April 2013, having expanded into Syria, the group adopted the name ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī ‘l-’Irāq wash-Shām. As al-Shām is a region often compared with the Levant or Greater Syria, the group’s name has been variously translated as “Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham”, “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (both abbreviated as ISIS), or “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (abbreviated as ISIL).
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While the use of either one or the other acronym has been the subject of debate,the distinction between the two and its relevance has been considered not so great.Of greater relevance is Daesh, an acronym of ISIL’s Arabic name al-Dawlah al-Islamīyah fī al-’Irāq wa-al-Shām. Daesh, or Da’ish, has been widely used by ISIL’s Arabic-speaking detractors, although – and to a certain extent because – it is considered derogatory, as it resembles the Arabic words Daes (lit. “one who crushes, or tramples down, something underfoot”) and Dāhis (loosely translated: “one who sows discord”). Within areas under its control, ISIL considers use of the acronym Daesh punishable by floggingor cutting out the tongue. In May 2014, the United States Department of State announced its decision to use “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) as the group’s primary name. It kept to this decision when in late June 2014 the group renamed itself ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah (lit. Islamic State or IS), thereby declaring itself a worldwide caliphate. The name “Islamic State” and the group’s claim to be a caliphate have been widely rejected, with the UN, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups refusing to use the new name. Later in 2014, however, some top US officials shifted toward using the name Daesh, since this was the name that their Arab allies preferred to use. In 2015, over 120 British parliamentarians asked the BBC to use the name Daesh, following the example of John Kerry and Laurent Fabius. It subsequently adopted the phrase “so-called Islamic State”.
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Ideology and beliefs ISIL is a theocracy, proto-state] and a Salafi or Wahhabi group. It follows an extremist interpretation of Islam, promotes religious violence, and regards Muslims who do not agree with its interpretations as infidels or apostates. According to Hayder al Khoei, ISIL’s philosophy is represented by the symbolism in the Black Standard variant of the legendary battle flag of Prophet Muhammad that it has adopted: the flag shows the Seal of Muhammad within a white circle, with the phrase above it, “There is no God but Allah”. Such symbolism has been said to point to ISIL’s belief that it represents the restoration of the caliphate of early Islam, with all the political, religious and eschatological ramifications that this would imply.
According to The Economist, dissidents in the ISIL capital of Al-Raqqah report that “all 12 of the judges who now run its court system ... are Saudis”. Saudi Wahhabi practices also followed by the group include the establishment of religious police to root out “vice” and enforce attendance at salat prayers, the widespread use of capital punishment, and the destruction or re-purposing of any non-Sunni religious buildings. Bernard Haykel has described alBaghdadi’s creed as “a kind of untamed Wahhabism”. ISIL aims to return to the early days of Islam, rejecting all innovations in the religion, which it believes corrupts its original spirit. It condemns later caliphates and the Ottoman Empire for deviating from what it calls pure Islam, and seeks to revive the original Wahhabi project of the restoration of the caliphate governed by strict Salafist doctrine. Following Salafi-Wahhabi tradition, ISIL condemns the followers of secular law as disbelievers, putting the current Saudi Arabian government in that category.
According to some observers, ISIL emerged from the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, the first postOttoman Islamist group dating back to the late 1920s in Egypt. It adheres to global jihadist principles and follows the hard-line ideology of al-Qaeda and many other modern-day jihadist groups. However, other sources trace the group’s roots to Wahhabism.
Salafists such as ISIL believe that only a legitimate authority can undertake the leadership of jihad, and that the first priority over other areas of combat, such as fighting non-Muslim countries, is the purification of Islamic society. For example, ISIL regards the Palestinian Sunni group Hamas as apostates who have no legitimate authority to lead jihad and see fighting Hamas as the first step toward confrontation by ISIL with Israel.
For their guiding principles, the leaders of the Islamic State ... are open and clear about their almost exclusive commitment to the Wahhabi movement of Sunni Islam. The group circulates images of Wahhabi religious textbooks from Saudi Arabia in the schools it controls. Videos from the group’s territory have shown Wahhabi texts plastered on the sides of an official missionary van. -David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times
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Goals Since at least 2004, a significant goal of the group has been the foundation of a Sunni Islamic state. Specifically, ISIL has sought to establish itself as a caliphate, an Islamic state led by a group of religious authorities under a supreme leader—the caliph—who is believed to be the successor to Prophet Muhammad. In June 2014, ISIL published a document in which it claimed to have traced the lineage of its leader al-Baghdadi back to Muhammad, and upon proclaiming a new caliphate on 29 June, the group appointed al-Baghdadi as its caliph. As caliph, he demands the allegiance of all devout Muslims worldwide, according to Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
asm”—including enthusiasm for killing “hundreds of millions” of people. A map circulated around the internet purporting to show historical areas of former Muslim states in Europe, Asia, and Africa, that ISIL planned to expand to, was created by outside supporters and had no official connection to ISIL. When the caliphate was proclaimed, ISIL stated: “The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organisations becomes null by the expansion of the khilafah’s [caliphate’s] authority and arrival of its troops to their areas.” This was a rejection of the political divisions in Southwestern Asia that were established by European countries during World War I in the Sykes–Picot Agreement.
ISIL has detailed its goals in its Dabiq magazine, saying it will continue to seize land and take over the entire Earth until its: Blessed flag...covers all eastern and western extents of the Earth, filling the world with the truth and justice of Islam and putting an end to the falsehood and tyranny of jahiliyyah [state of ignorance], even if American and its coalition despise such. — 5th edition of Dabiq, the Islamic State’s English-language magazine According to German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, who spent ten days embedded with ISIL in Mosul, the view that he kept hearing was that ISIL wants to “conquer the world” and all who do not believe in the group’s interpretation of the Koran will be killed. Todenhöfer was struck by the ISIL fighters’ belief that “all religions who agree with democracy have to die”, and by their “incredible enthusi
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Strategy According to Jason Burke, a journalist writing on Jihadi Salafism, ISIL’s goal is to “terrorize, mobilize, polarize”. Their efforts to terrorize are intended to intimidate civilian populations and force governments of the target enemy “to make rash decisions that they otherwise would not choose”. Mobilize its supporters by motivating them with, for example, spectacular deadly attacks on enemy soil such as the November 2015 Paris attacks. Polarize by driving Muslim populations— particularly in the West—away from their governments, thus increasing the appeal of the ISIS caliphate among them. “Eliminate neutral parties through either absorption or elimination”.
by the work of additional forces, which are double the ordinary amount, and a huge increase in spending, — Scott Atran, Paris: The War ISIS Wants while inspiring disaffected youth who are naturally rebellious and energetic. The terror will motivate crowds drawn from the masses to fly to the regions which we manage, particularly the youth… [For] the youth of the nation are closer to the innate nature [of humans] on account of the rebelliousness within them. — Scott Atran, Paris: The War ISIS Wants
A 2004 work published online entitled Management of Savagery (Idarat at Tawahoush), described by several media outlets as influential on ISIL, and intended to provide a strategy to create a new Islamic caliphate, recommended a strategy of attack outside its territory in which fighters would:
and will also draw the “Crusaders” into a quagmire of military conflict: Work to expose the weakness of America’s centralized power by pushing it to abandon the media psychological war and war by proxy until it fights directly. — Scott Atran, Paris: The War ISIS Wants
Diversify and widen the vexation strikes against the Crusader-Zionist enemy in every place in the Islamic world, and even outside of it if possible, so as to disperse the efforts of the alliance of the enemy and thus drain it to the greatest extent possible.
One observer has described ISIL’s publicizing of its mass executions and killing of civilians as part of “a conscious plan designed to instill among believers a sense of meaning that is sacred and sublime, while scaring the hell out of fencesitters and enemies.”Another describes it purpose as to “break” psychologically those under its control “so as to ensure their absolute allegiance through fear and intimidation”, while generating “outright hate and vengeance” by its enemies.
— Scott Atran, Paris: The War ISIS Wants Terror attacks on soft targets like resorts will require expenditures for security that will weaken the “crusaders”. If a tourist resort that the Crusaders patronize…is hit, all of the tourist resorts in all of the states of the world will have to be secured
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Documents found after the death of Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein’s air defense force who has been called “the strategic head” of ISIL, detail planning for the ISIL takeover of northern Syria which made possible “the group’s later advances into Iraq”. Al-Khlifawi called for the infiltration of areas to be conquered with spies who would find out “as much as possible about the target towns: Who lived there, who was in charge, which families were religious, which Islamic school of religious jurisprudence they belonged to, how many mosques there were, who the imam was, how many wives and children he had and how old they were.” Following this surveillance and espionage would come murder and kidnapping -- “the elimination of every person who might have been a potential leader or opponent”. In Raqqa, after rebel forces drove out the Assad regime and ISIL infiltrated the town, “first dozens and then hundreds of people disappeared.” There is no known involvement in any form of conflict resolution. In Fall 2015, the first moves at all inclusive talks about talks were made by Irish mediator Jonathan Galway-Jackson to the anti-war leader of the opposition in Britain Jeremy Corbyn to construct a form of “track 2 diplomatic talks” at INCORE in Ireland involving all parties including Daesh political representative/s. sources: look page 133
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INTRODUCTION DAESH Daesh is an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). Essentially, it’s another word for ISIS - but apparently one that ISIS militants do not favour.
This publication strikes in against this aspect of oppression by the Western media. The use of datavisuals, infographics, photographic material, ... of (mostly) unknown facts to the western community will make us more aware of what is actually happening.
Why? Because it is similar to the Arabic words ‘Daes’, ‘one who crushes something underfoot’ and ‘Dahes’, translated as ‘one who sows discord’.
The publication is mainly focussed on two aspects: first, the acts of violence and secondly, the intern aspects of the organisation. By showing all the acts our view will be enlarged by the numerous of attacks that are hid from us. The intern aspects, at the other hand, will show us the strengths and weaknesses ISIL has.
In January 2015, then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that he would begin referring to the Islamic State group by this name, saying: “Daesh hates being referred to by this term, and what they don’t like has an instinctive appeal to me.”
The task with this publication is to bring a full image of ISIL. Facts and figures are the medium to spread the message.
With this said and done, the title of the publication is set with a meaning. With the use of the word ‘Daesh’ we want to present our negative view upon the organisation. The news brought ISIL to us by explicitely showing the acts happening close to us, or the beheading videos of American/British citizen. Besides this everything else about ISIL is unknown by the most of us. This is the main subject of this project, showing the complete image of ISIL.
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Ramadi, Iraq, 26.07.2014 Osama Al-Dulaimi
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TERRITORY The Islamic State’s territory in 2015 shrank by 40% from its maximum expansion in Iraq and by 20% in Syria as international forces pushed its militants out of several cities, a spokesman of the US-led coalition said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh, swept through a third of Iraq in 2014, seizing Mosul, the largest city in the north, and reaching the vicinity of Baghdad. ISIS has lost ground since its mid2014 height. But the US-led coalition’s numbers elide a more complex reality on the ground. ISIS lost only 14% of its territory in 2015, according to the New York Times. And those territorial losses occurred amid expansion into strategically vital territory in Syria.
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Fighters from the self-declared Islamic State parade through Raqqa, Syria
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa
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Raqqa, Syria, 06.2014 Raqqa Media Center
Raqqa, Iraq, 29.06.2014 Stringer
Militant Islamist fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province
Raqqa, Syria, 30.06.2014 Stringer
Displaced residents from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town
Ninawa, Iraq, 12.08.2014 Rodi Said
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Al Mansura, Egypt, Undated David Rose
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FINANCIAL Money really does make the whole world go round - even self-styled Islamic caliphates. Isis, the terror group that has shocked the world with its unabashed brutality across swathes of Syria and Iraq, is one of the best-funded terrorist organisations in the world, and it is the group’s vast wealth that has allowed it to expand so rapidly. While there’s no credible estimate of the total amounts in Isis’ coffers, CNN reported earlier this year that the group makes up to $2million a day in oil sales from its seized territories, and The Economist said Isis earned at least $20million from hostage ransoms alone in 2014. However, it appears that US-led coalition (and now Russian) airstrikes might be financially taking their toll on the group. You don’t need to be an economist to know that a financial model that relies on stealing is not exactly a sustainable growth strategy. In addition, the records show that almost half of Isis’s total revenue in Deir ez-Zor goes to paying soldiers’ salaries, which is budgeting doomed to fail. So while the caliphate might be rich for the time being, under these circumstances, it can’t last forever.
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Financial - Expenses
MEDIA 3%
AID SUMS 6%
ISLAMIC POLICE 10%
SOCIAL SERVICES 18%
BASE 20%
SOLDIER SALARIES 44%
The average amount of ISIL expenses (percentage)
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Financial - Income
DONATIONS 2%
KIDNAP & RANSOM 4%
WHEAT & BARLEY 4%
PHOSPHATE 10%
CEMENT 10%
EXTORTION 12%
OIL 38%
GAS 17%
The average amount of ISIL income (percentage)
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DONATIONS 50 Million US dollar
KIDNAP & RANSOM 120 Million US dollar
WHEAT & BARLEY 200 Million US dollar
PHOSPHATE 292 Million US dollar
CEMENT 300 Million US dollar
EXTORTION 360 Million US dollar
OIL 1.095 Billion US dollar
GAS 495 Million US dollar
The average amount of ISIL income (money)
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Islamic State group policeman armed with guns stand guard outside the front of an ISIS police station in Iraq’s Nineveh province
Several ISIS bases have been captured by rebels in Idlib and Aleppo provinces
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Nineveh, Iraq, Undated AP
Idlib/Aleppo, Syria, Undated
The Oil Stills of Al Mansura near Al Raqqah
Al Mansura, Egypt, Undated David Rose
Villagers scatter wheat seeds on a field during planting season in Falluja
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Falluja, Iraq, Undated Mohanned Faisal
Raqqa, Syria, 29.10.2014 Nour Fourat
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MEDIA From its start, social media has been integral to ISIS’s rise. It enables ISIS militants to raise its prestige among terror groups, and overtake older jihadist competitors like al-Qaeda. It serves to coordinate troops and win battles. And it allows the group to administer the territory under its control. Now ISIS is using social media to expand its war far beyond its borders. What started with the choreographed execution video of James Foley, blasted across the Web through an army of dummy Twitter accounts, has now morphed into something more devious and distributed. Rather than calling followers to the front lines, ISIS’s social-media strategy cultivates them at home in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia. And it can use those followers to devastating effect, whether sending masked gunmen storming into the Paris Bataclan theater or inspiring an American citizen and his wife to massacre 14 co-workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.
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Media - Output
AUDIO
4%
VIDEO
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WRITTEN
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PHOTO
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78%
Media - Themes
IS AMNESTY 4
BELONGING 8
ULTRAVIOLENCE 19
VICTIMHOOD 61
MILITARY 331
CIVILIAN LIFE 469
Average media messages by topic (17 july - 15 august 2015)
OTHERS 17
SOCIAL LIFE 30
NATURE 31
JUSTICE 41
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 99
RELIGION 115
LOCAL SERVICES 136
By topic ‘Civilian Life’
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Media - ISIL mediacenters
WEST AFRICA
West Africa Province Media Office Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiyya
ALGERIA
Algeria Province Media Office Wilayat al Jaza’ir
SAUDI ARABIA
Najd Province Media Office Wilayat Najd
LIBYA
Cyrenaica Province Media Office Wilayat al Barqa Tripolltania Province Media Office Wilayat Tarablus
Hejaz Province Media Office Wilayat al-Hijaz
Fezzan Province Media Office Wilayat Fizzan
EGYPT
SYRIA IRAQ
Egypt Media Offcie Masr Sinai Province Media Office Wilayat Sayna
Jazira Province Media Office Wilayat al-Jazira Euphrates Province Media Office Wilayat al-Furat
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IRAQ
SYRIA
Salahuddin Province Media Office Wilayat Salah al-Din
Dijla Province Media Office Wilayat Dijla
Fallujah Province Media Office Wilayat al-Falluja
Janub Province Media Office Wilayat al-Janub
nineveh Province Media Office Wilayat Ninawa
Kirkuk Province Media Office Wilayat Kirkuk
Bagdad Province Media Office Wilayat Bagdad
North Bagdad Province Media Office Wilayat Shamal Bagdad
Anbar Province Media Office Wilayat al-Anbar
Diyala Province Media Office Wilayat Diyala
Allepo Province Media Office Wilayat Halab
Hama Province Media Office Wilayat Hama
Barakah Province Media Office Wilayat al-Baraka
Homs Province Media Office Wilayat Hims
Khayr Province Media Office Wilayat al-Khayr
Raqqa Province Media Office Wilayat al-Raqqa
Damascus Province Media Office Wilayat Dimasha
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Media - ISIL mediacenters
YEMEN
Aden-Abyan Province Media Office Wilayat ‘Adan-Abyan
Al-Lhwaa Al-Akhdar Province Media Office Wilayat al-Liwa’ al-Akhdar
Bayda Province Media Office Wilayat al-Bayda
Hadramahaut Province Media Office Wilayat Hadramawt
Lahj Province Media Office Wilayat Lahj
Shabwa Province Media Office Wilayat Shabwa
Sansa Province Media Office Wilayat San’aa
TUNISIA
Tunisia Media Office Tunus
CAUCASUS
Caucasus Province Media Office Wilayat al-Qawqaz
KHURASAN
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Khurasan Province Media Office Wilayat Khurasan
AREA OF ISIS
al-Himma Foundation Maktobat al-Himma
Ajnad Foundation Mu’assassat ajnad
al-Furqan Foundation Mu’assassat al-Furqan
al-Bayan Radio idha’at al-Bayan
al-I’tisam Foundation Mu’assassat al-I’tisam
A’maq News Agency Wakalat A’maq al-Akhbariyya
al-Hayat Media Center Markaz al-Hayat I-il-I’lam
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Media - Twitter Country
People
SAUDI ARABIA
866
SYRIA
507
IRAQ
453
UNITED STATES
404
EGYPT
326
KUWAIT
300
TURKEY
203
PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
162
LEBANON
141
UNITED KINGDOM
139
TUNESIA
125
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Media - Dabiq The Islamic State (ISIS) regularly puts out a glossy propaganda magazine aimed at recruiting jihadists from the West. It is sophisticated, slick, beautifully produced and printed in several languages including English. ‘Dabiq’ as it is called, bills itself as “a periodical magazine focusing on the issues of tawhid (unity), manhaj (truthseeking), hijrah (migration), jihad (holy war) and jama’ah (community). It will also contain photo reports, current events, and informative articles on matters relating to the Islamic State.” It portrays the Islamic State as they see themselves: boasting of their victories and painting a romantic image of the restoration of an Islamic golden age and the heralding of a “glorious” new caliphate based on holy war. Dabiq is a place in Syria that is supposed to be the location for one of the final battles according to certain Muslim myths about a final apocalypse. Choosing such a name for the magazine highlights the caliphate’s goals.
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the spark has been lit here in iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify – by allah’s permission – until it burns the crusader armies in dabiq. - abu mus’ab az-zarqawi
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dabiq magazine Khilafah declared
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imamah is from the millah of ibrahim
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until it burns the Crusader armies in Dabiq
feature: from hijrah to Khilafah
42 islamic state news
All praise is due to Allah; and may Allah send blessings and peace upon His Messenger.
Media Center decided to carry on the effort – in sha’allah – into a periodical magazine focusing on issues of tawhid, manhaj, hijrah, jihad, and jama’ah.
After a review of some of the comments received on the first issues of Islamic State News and Islamic State Report, AlHayat
It will also contain photo reports, current events, and informative articles on matters related to the Islamic State. May
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Allah bless this effort and make it a beacon for generations to come. As for the name of the magazine, then it is taken from the area named Dabiq in the northern countryside of Halab (Aleppo) in Sham. This place was mentioned in a hadith describing some of the events of the Malahim (what is sometimes referred to as Armageddon in English). One of the greatest battles between the Muslims and the crusaders will take place near Dabiq. Abu Hurayrah reported that Allah’s Messenger (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,
“The Hour will not be established until the Romans land at al-A’maq or Dabiq (two places near each other in the northern countryside of Halab). Then an army from al-Madinah of the best people on the earth at that time will leave for them. When they line up in ranks, the Romans will say, ‘Leave us and those who were taken as prisoners from amongst us so we can fight them.’ The Muslims will say, ‘Nay, by Allah, we will not abandon our brothers to
If he were to leave him, he would melt until he perished, but he kills him with his own hand, and then shows them his blood upon his spear” [Sahih Muslim].
you.’ So they will fight them. Then one third of them will flee; Allah will never forgive them. One third will be killed; they will be the best martyrs with Allah. And one third will conquer them; they will never be afflicted with fitnah. Then they will conquer Constantinople.
Shaykh Abu Mus’ab az-Zarqawi (rahimahullah) anticipated the expansion of the blessed jihad from Iraq into Sham and linked it to this hadith saying,
battles leading up to the conquests of Constantinople, then Rome. Presently, Dabiq is under the control of crusaderbacked sahwat, close to the warfront between them and the Khilafah. May Allah purify Dabiq from the treachery of the sahwah and raise the flag of the Khilafah over its land. Amin.
“The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify – by Allah’s permission – until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq”
While they are dividing the war booty, having hung their swords on olive trees, Shaytan will shout, ‘The [false] Messiah has followed after your families [who were left behind.]’ So they will leave [for their families], but Shaytan’s claim is false.
[Ayna Ahlul-Muru’at].
According to the hadith, the area will play a historical role in the
When they arrive to Sham he comes out. Then while they are preparing for battle and filing their ranks, the prayer is called. So ‘Isa Ibn Maryam (‘alayhis-Salam) will descend and lead them. When the enemy of Allah sees him, he will melt as salt melts in water.
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They sent the criminals and leaders of kufr off to Hellfire. He also sought to avenge the honor of the sisters imprisoned by the tyrannical crusader Copts in Egypt, and thus the attack against the “Our Lady of Salvation” Church was executed.1 The Rāfidah then called for help from their crusader masters who mobilized whatever they could to get hold of this heroic lion. They provided all information about this unique man and his aids, most prominent of them being the brave knight, the military leader of Baghdad, Abū Khawlah. Hudhayfah al-Battāwī used to call him his closest friend due to his strong love for him until they were killed together in the prison. Hudhayfah (rahimahullāh) was steadfast like anchored mountains while in the Rāfidah’s “Counter-Terrorism” prison. When the Rāfidī enemy of Allah, Nouri al-Maliki, met him and told him that he would soon be executed by hanging, he replied to him that he wasn’t concerned and that life and death were only in Allah’s hands and not in his. The Rāfidī tāghūt Nouri al-Maliki
Then he and the brothers with him began coordinating from inside the prison with the brothers outside. They provided them with two pistols, TNT explosives, and detonators. The smuggling method was clever and their surveillance apparatuses and security procedures were unable to uncover it. The agreement was that the attack on the prison would begin from
the outside at the very moment of the attack by the Wālī Hudhayfah and his brothers inside the prison against the apostates. Thus approached zero hour, but the attack did not occur in the morning as planned because the appointment changed due to the apostate warden coming to them at night to take them out for interrogation. So Hudhayfah took care of killing him. Then he went to the director of “CounterTerrorism,” the enemy of Allah, Mu’ayyad asSālih. He executed him and retaliated for the Muslims. Likewise, the brother Abū Khawlah, military leader of Baghdad, and the rest of his brothers clashed with the apostates and they killed everyone in the prison in which the mujāhidīn were tortured and had experienced that which only Allah knows of. They rode the apostates’ car from the prison building and arrived at the Interior Ministry’s gateway. They then clashed with the apostates. The crusaders stepped in, striking them with Apache helicopters. However, the brothers persisted with their combat until they were all killed while facing the enemy not retreating. They were ten from the best of knights, led by our knight, the Wālī Hudhayfah al-Battāwī. He (rahimahullāh) was eager to achieve shahādah, so he got what he was yearning for, not dying until he made the apostates cry, debilitated them with wounds, and made them taste death and sadness that kindled in them the pain of defeat and failure. He (rahimahullāh) was already married for some time before his killing, and at the time of his arrest, he was bestowed with a child. He (rahimahullāh) was killed and never met his son. The worldly life, its pleasures, and adornments did not succeed in tempting him even for a single day. Every Muslim should raise his head out of pride for these men, with glory and honor, in the face of the people of falsehood. We ask Allah (ta’ālā) not to deprive us of His reward, nor to make us succumb to tribulations, and to generously bestow upon him as well as his brothers the reward and high rank in Jannah.
1 The attack is discussed briefly on pages 30-32 of issue #7.
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THE MURTADD PILOT WAS KILLED IN RETALIATION FOR AIRSTRIKES AGAINST MUSLIMS SUCH AS THOSE PICTURED ABOVE
In executing the mujāhidīn, Jordan is merely hastening the inevitable destruction of its tāghūt regime. Allah’s Messenger (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said, “Whoever harms an ally of Mine, then I have declared war against him” [Sahīh alBukhārī].
This week, the Islamic State released a video depicting the execution of the Jordanian crusader pilot, Mu’ādh Sāfī Yūsuf al-Kasāsibah. As displayed in the video, the Islamic State had resolved to burn him alive as retribution for his crimes against Islam and the Muslims, including his active involvement in crusader airstrikes against Muslim lands.
While the execution of Sājidah and Ziyād became the focus of international headlines, the focus for many ignorant hizbiyyīn became the manner in which the pilot was executed. Amongst them was the Jordanian Abū Sayyāf Muhammad ashShalabī, who stated, “The manner in which he was executed and the subsequent production of a video displaying his execution is a matter that opposes the teachings of the pure religion. Jihād was legislated to make the people enter the religion, not to make them turn away from the religion or to distort its image.”1
When the news of the video broke out, the tāghūt of Jordan who at the time was in Washington to meet with his masters at the White House – as is the habit of the crusader puppets – cut short his trip, returned home early, and promptly ordered the execution of the mujāhidah, Sājidah ar-Rīshāwī and the mujāhid, Ziyād alKarbūlī, both of whom had been imprisoned for nearly a decade by the murtaddīn of Jordan. The Islamic State had done everything it could to secure the release of both Sājidah and Ziyād, but Allah decreed that they would return to Him as shuhadā’, an incomparable honor which they had both desired, eagerly pursued, and supplicated their Lord for. We consider them so, and Allah is their judge. dabiq
This type of rhetoric is typical of hizbiyyīn – even those masquerading as supporters of the mujāhidīn – who continue to live under the authority of the murtadd puppets, and of defeatist Muslims who reside in the lands of kufr under the authority of the crusaders themselves, with no intention of making hijrah to those lands in which the word of Allah is the highest. Such people have had their religion diluted and, not surprisingly, are always amongst the first to speak out in any case where the 5
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mujāhidīn display their harshness towards the crusaders, attempting to disguise their criticism towards the mujāhidīn as concern for the image of Islam. In burning the crusader pilot alive and burying him under a pile of debris, the Islamic State carried out a just form of retaliation for his involvement in the crusader bombing campaign which continues to result in the killing of countless Muslims who, as a result of these airstrikes, are burned alive and buried under mountains of debris. This is not to even mention
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1 Abū Sayyāf ash-Shalabī exposed the full extent of his evil when displaying his remorse for the murtadd pilot in the face of the mujāhidīn. He also fabricated stories about the negotiations regarding the prisoners by claiming to be involved in these negotiations, whereas the representative of the Jordanian tāghūt from the beginning was ‘Āsim Tāhir al-Barqāwī (AKA Abū Muhammad al-Maqdisī, whose campaign of lies carries on). Furthermore, ash-Shalabī shamelessly lied by claiming that the murtadd Baathist ‘Izzat ad-Dūrī and other murtadd Baathists were members of the Islamic State and involved in the negotiations! So, a shameless liar – ash-Shalabī – is taken as a “jihādī mentor”! One can only say to him, “If you have no shame, then do as you wish” [Sahīh al-Bukhārī].
The Current Health Infrastructure
Category
Amount
The Islamic State provides the Muslims with extensive healthcare by running a host of medical facilities including hospitals and clinics in all major cities through which it is offering a wide range of medical services, from various types of complicated surgery to simpler services such as hijāmah. This infrastructure is aided by a widespread network of pharmacies run by qualified pharmacists and managed under the supervision and control of the Health Dīwān. Just as the medical staff in the hospitals and clinics are made up of qualified, trained professionals, the pharmacies are likewise only run by qualified and certified pharmacists.
Outpatients
6711
Urinary Surgeries
18
Preparing for the Future
Nerve Surgeries
15
Ear Surgeries
3
In order to ensure a steady supply of qualified medical personnel in the future as well as expanding and enhancing the current medical services from a professional as well as Islamic point of view, the Islamic State recently opened the Medical College in ar-Raqqah as well as the College for Medical Studies in Mosul.
Gynecological Surgeries
47
Emergency Surgeries
16
Emergency Patients
4289
Lab Tests
15688
Minor X-Rays
2384
Kidney Dialysis Sessions
442
Physiotherapy Sessions
233
Children Admitted
170
Blood Donors
1151
General Surgeries
140
Bone Surgeries
261
Births Audiometric Tests
576 45
Brain Stem Scans
11
Ultrasound Exams
400
ONE-MONTH COMBINED STATISTICS FOR AL-FĀRŪQ AND ‘Ā’ISHAH HOSPITALS (WILĀYAT HALAB)
The pediatric wing of ar-Raqqah’s main hospital
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been executed by the Islamic State in the most visceral way possible after the British and American governments apparently made a joint decision not to discuss terms for our release with our captors. And now, unless something changes very quickly and very radically, I await my turn.
THE REAL STORY BEHIND MY VIDEOS John Cantlie
Such an environment forces the mind to change. I’ve had to become pretty tough inside, sometimes just to get through each day. The Sheikh who originally captured James Foley and me back in November 2012 said, “to go through this you will need a heart of stone.” And he was right. I try to stay very calm, tolerant and accepting of my situation. Muslims call it ‘Qadr Allah,’ the will of God, who determines everything in advance. I am thankful for any comfort I receive and for every plate of food I get.
Forgive me in advance, but there are many references to myself in the following article. I dislike talking about myself, it appears arrogant, but it’s my voice and words being analyzed by journalists following the release of videos shot by the Islamic State. And to put things into perspective, I have to tell parts of my story. One observation is that the videos are scripted, and that perhaps I have no choice in the content. This is not true. The mujahidin suggest initial titles, I write the scripts, hand them over for any copy changes that need to be made and the videos are shot. It’s all very fast – the first eight videos were written, approved and filmed in just 12 days – but the mujahidin are like that. In quick, get the job done, move on to the next task.
It hasn’t been an easy road, and some of us had a bumpy ride. Once we were finally put into general population with dozens of European prisoners, we had to watch them all go home to their loved ones while we, the British and Americans, were left behind. That was a bitter pill to swallow, but nothing compared to what came next. Now I’ve had to watch as James, Steven Sotloff, David Haines and Alan Henning walked out of the door, one every two weeks since August 18th, never to return, knowing they were going to be killed and going to their deaths.
When your brain has had nothing to work on for two years except basic survival, and is suddenly put onto centre stage in front of the world’s media, it’s a shock to the system. Nothing, nothing, kablam! You’re on. I was used to working for the news before, not being the news, and it’s very different. Every word you say is examined, especially if you’re in my situation. So to really understand the content of the films, and why I say what I sometimes say, you need to appreciate the story behind the scenes.
And now they’re gone, their faces and deaths plastered all over the world’s headlines, four foolish policy victims. What does that do to a man? After enduring years of pain, darkness and regret, to see it all end in such a ghastly way when everyone else went home, to see ordinary guys, family men, loving fathers killed because their governments wouldn’t negotiate because of ‘policy,’ wouldn’t even discuss options for saving them with their families – can you begin to imagine how that feels? This wasn’t a fateful soul taken at random, it was individuals missing for years in one of the most high-profile hostage crisis seen in modern history, with dozens
As a friend, once said to me, I am nobody going nowhere. I am just a man in a dark room with a mattress on the floor. It is clean and comfortable; for a man in my position, it is enough. Four of my cellmates have already
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of witnesses who had gone home testifying they were alive and could be helped. I believe even the mujahidin were genuinely surprised at how easily our countries left us for dead. We’d come all this way, putting one foot in front of the other, supporting one another when it got tough, praying together every day. We used to call it the Dead Zone when things got bad, after the area Everest climbers face above 26,000 feet as they approach the summit, when every step is agony, when they hardly have enough strength to carry on. We never gave up hope that our nations would negotiate for our release. But all that time, we never knew that the decision regarding our fate had been made months beforehand in Washington and Whitehall. We never knew that our families, for whom it was like being locked up in prison with us, were being blanked by the governments or being told there was nothing they could do. We never knew that the families were left to themselves to try anything and everything, while the men in charge folded their arms and offered their sympathies.
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Media - #Daeshbags Activist hacking group Anonymous and their followers are carrying out a “trolling day” against the terrorist group the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) as part of its cyber-campaign against the militant Islamist group. In an online message posted this week, Anonymous asked people to troll ISIS, or “Daesh” as it is also known in the West (a derogatory term for the group) online as part of its “Operation ISIS” campaign. Trolling is the term given to abuse, insults or threats made online with celebrities often being the targets of internet “trolls.” Many ISIS supporters and members have social media accounts and the Jihadist group as a whole has a sophisticated online presence. The hashtags #Daeshbags, #trollingday and #isistrollingday were being used on Twitter accompanied by messages and images mocking the group and its selfproclaimed caliphate, or religious state, in Syria and Iraq.
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Still from the ISIS execution video of James Foley
Raqqa, Iraq, 19.08.2014 ISIL Media Outlet
A militant Islamist fighter uses a mobile to film his fellow fighters taking part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province
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Raqqa, Syria, 30.06.2014 Stringer
Still from the ISIL video ‘Flames of War’
19.09.2014 ISIL Media Outlet
Daily life - at the swimming pool
Mosul, Iraq, 02.08.2015 ISIL Media Outlet
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Salahuddin, Iraq, Undated Uncredited
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FOREIGN FIGHTERS It is estimated that over 27,000 foreign fighters have travelled to Iraq and Syria since fighting broke out in 2011. There are approximately 6,000 people from Europe - with the most fighters leaving France, Germany and the UK. The number of foreign fighters from Western Europe has more than doubled since June 2014, while it has remained relatively flat in other regions such as North America. The UK has seen an estimated 760 jihadists travel to Syria and Iraq. Some estimates say that half of these have returned to the UK, while more than 50 are reported to have died. The Asian continent has seen the most citizens travel to Syria and Iraq, with over 14,000 people estimated to be in the conflict zone.
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Foreign Fighters - Western population
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Belgium 22 250
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Denmark 18 100
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
France 11 700
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Australia 11 250
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Norway 10 50
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Netherlands 7 120
POPULATION
per million
068
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Austria 7 60
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Ireland 7 30
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Britain 6 400
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Sweden 4 30
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Germany 4 270
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
United States 1 70
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Foreign Fighters - Middle East population
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Jordan 300+ 2,809
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Tunisia 260 3,000
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Lebanon 200 890
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Chechnya 145 186
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Libya 90 556
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Saudi Arabia 85 2,500
POPULATION
per million
070
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Morocco 45 1,500
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Palestine 30 114
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Kuwait 25 71
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Iraq 10 247
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Turkey 10 400
COUNTRY POPULATION NUMBER
Egypt 10 358
071
Foreign Fighters - Ready to radicalise
COUNTRY R TO R
France 27,456
COUNTRY R TO R
Italy 4,176
COUNTRY R TO R
Germany 3,278
COUNTRY R TO R
United Kingdom 1,581
COUNTRY R TO R
Spain 484
COUNTRY R TO R
Netherlands 243
R TO R
Ready to radicalise
072
COUNTRY R TO R
Belgium 127
COUNTRY R TO R
Bulgaria 69
COUNTRY R TO R
Greece 60
COUNTRY R TO R
Austria 27
073
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul
Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in Syria
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Mosul, Iraq, 11.06.2014 Stringer
Raqqa, Syria, 30.06.2014 Stringer
A militant Islamist fighter takes part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province
Raqqa, Iraq, 30.06.2014 Slate
An Islamic State militant stands next to residents as they hold pieces of wreckage from a Syrian war plane after it crashed in Raqqa
Raqqa, Iraq, 16.09.2014 Stringer
075
Mosul, Iraq, 11.06.2014 Stringer
076
MILITARY EQUIPMENT ISIS has made considerable gains in both Iraq and Syria under the collapse of local military and security forces. This is a list of some of the military equipment used by the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The weaponry shown is divided by type of equipment, region of origin and by it’s name. The numbers in their possession remains largely unknown due to running coniditons, available stock of ammunition and fuel supplies, and ISIS know-how as to particular operation and skill level concerning these weapon systems.
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Military equipment - Assault / battle rifles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
AK-47 Selective fire Assault Rifle Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M16 rifle Assault Rifle United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M4A1 Carbine Rifle United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Norinco CQ Assault Rifle China
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
FN FAL Battle rifle Belgium
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Heckler and Koch G3 Battle rifle West Germany
078
Military equipment - Sniper rifles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Dragunov SVD Designated marksman rifle Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
PSL/FPK Designated marksman rifle Romania
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M14 EBR Designated marksman rifle United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Mosin–Nagant Sniper rifle Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M99 Anti-materiel rifle China
079
Military equipment - Machine guns
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
DShK Heavy machine gun Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
NSV machine gun Heavy machine gun Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
PKM Squad automatic weapon Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M249 light machine gun Squad automatic weapon United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
RPK Light machine gun Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
RPD Light machine gun Soviet Union
080
Military equipment - Pistols
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Browning Hi-Power Semi-automatic pistol Belgium
081
Glock 17 Semi-automatic pistol Austria
Military equipment - Explosives, anti- tank / aircraft
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M62 grenade Hand grenade United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
AGS-17 Automatic grenade launcher Soviet Union
NAME TYPE
RPG-7 Rocket propelled grenade launcher Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
RPG-22 Rocket propelled grenade launcher Soviet Union
RPG-29 Rocket propelled grenade launcher Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M79 Osa Anti-tank rocket launcher Yugoslavia
ORIGIN
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
082
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
FN-6 MANPADS China
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
SA-7 Grail MANPADS Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
SA-16 Gimlet MANPADS Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
SA-24 Grinch MANPADS Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
BGM-71 TOW Wire-guided anti-tank missile United States
083
Military equipment - Towed artilery
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M198 Howitzer Towed howitzer United States
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
AZP S-60 Anti-Aircraft Gun Soviet Union
084
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
ZU-23-2 Towed Anti-Aircraft Twin Autocannon Soviet Union
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Type 59-1 Field gun Soviet Union
085
Military equipment - Towed artilery
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
122-mm howitzer D-30 Field gun Soviet Union
086
Military equipment - Artilery
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
BM-21 Grad Multiple Rocket Launcher Soviet Union
087
Military equipment - Artilery
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
2S1 Gvozdika Self-propelled artillery Soviet Union
088
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
ZSU-23-4 Shilka Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun Soviet Union
089
Military equipment - Logistics and utility vehicles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
HMMWV Light Utility Vehicle United States
090
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Technicals improvised fighting vehicles ISIL
091
Military equipment - Tanks and armored fighting vehicles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
BMP-1 Armored personnel carrier Soviet Union
092
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
MT-LB Armored personnel carrier Soviet Union
093
Military equipment - Tanks and armored fighting vehicles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
MRAP Armored personnel carrier United States
094
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M1117 Armored Security Vehicle Armored personnel carrier United States
095
Military equipment - Tanks and armored fighting vehicles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M113 APC Armored personnel carrier United States
096
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
T-55/55MV/AM/AMV Main battle tank Soviet Union
097
Military equipment - Tanks and armored fighting vehicles
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
T-72/72M/A/AV / TURMS-T/M1 TURMS-T Main battle tank Soviet Union
098
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
M1A1M Abrams Main battle tank United States
099
Military equipment - Aircraft
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
MiG-21 Fighter Aircraft Soviet Union
100
101
Military equipment - Aircraft
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
L-39ZA Trainer/ground-attack aircraft Czechoslovakia
102
103
Military equipment - Aircraft
NAME TYPE ORIGIN
Mohajer 4 Drone (UAV) Iran
104
Captured weapons of ISIL
Tel Tamir, Syria, Undated Joey L.
Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province
Raqqa, Syria, 30.06.2014 Stringer
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Militant Islamist fighters on a tank take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province
Raqqa, Iraq, 30.06.2014 Stringer
Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province
Raqqa, Iraq, 30.06.2014 Reuters
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Suruc, Turkey, 23.10.2014 Kai Pfaffenbach
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ATTACKS ISIS is becoming an increasingly ruthless and effective killing machine, one we can now quantify. For several years, as the organization evolved—moving between Iraq and Syria and changing its moniker—what we now know as ISIS has been cataloging its litany of vicious attacks in minute detail. Each event is labeled with the precise date, type and location of the attack. ISIS has, to date, released consistent reports on its operations only in Iraq; no such material is provided on Syria. Likewise, detailed information about the victims has been largely withheld, until the emergence of the video showing Foley’s murder.
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Attacks - murder by IED
SNIPER KILLS
2000
600
1800
400
1600
200
1400
0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
2012
2013
2014
1200 1000 800
HOUSING
600
600
400
400
200
200 0
0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
2012
2013
2014
2012
2013
2014
ROCKETS & MORTAR
EXECUTION
600
600
400
400
200
200 0
0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
2012
2013
2014
2012
2013
2014
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Attacks - Suicides by IED BELT
CAR BOMB
70
70
60
60
50
50
40
40
30
30
20
20
10
10
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
2012
2013
2014
2012
2013
2014
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Attacks - Paris 13 November 2015
DEATHS
INJURED
137
352-368
CRITICALLY
80 - 99
DEATHS BY COUNTRY FRANCE
102
ALGERIA
3
BELGIUM
3
CHILE
3
SPAIN
3
EGYPT
2
GERMANY
2
MEXICO
2
PORTUGAL
2
ROMANIA
2
SENEGAL
2
TUNISIA
2
BURKINA FASO 1
ITALY
1
MOROCCO
1
RUSSIA
1
SWEDEN
1
TURKEY
1
UK
1
USA
1
VENEZUELA
1
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TIMELINE OF ATTACKS
SUSPECTS
13 November 2015
21:20
First suicide bombing near the Stade de France
Salah Abdeslam
21:25
Shooting at the rue Bichat
Bilal Hadfi
21:30
Second suicide bombing near the Stade de France
Ahmad Almohamad
21:32
Shooting at the rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi
Omar Mostefai
21:36
Shooting at the rue de Charonne
Samy Amimour
21:40
Suicide bombing on boulevard Voltaire
Abdelhamid Abaaoud
21:40
Three men enter the Bataclan theatre and begin shooting
21:53
Third suicide bombing near the Stade de France
22:00
Hostages are taken at the Bataclan
14 November 2015
00:20
Security forces enter the Bataclan
00:58
French police end the siege on the Bataclan
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Victims outside ‘La Belle Epique’
Paris, France, 13.11.2015 Uncredited
Victim of the Bataclan, Paris
Paris, France, 13.11.2015 Uncredited
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Victim at ‘Le Carillon’
Paris, France, 13.11.2015 Uncredited
A view inside the Bataclan after the attack
Paris, France, 13.11.2015 Uncredited
115
Attacks - Brussels 22 March 2016
DEATHS
INJURED
35
300
CRITICALLY
62
DEATHS BY COUNTRY BELGIUM
16
USA
4
NETHERLANDS
CHINA
1
FRANCE
1
INDIA
LIBERIA
1
MOROCCO
1
SPAIN
POLAND
1
UK
1
116
SWEDEN
2
1
ITALY
1
1
PERU
1
2
TIMELINE OF ATTACKS
SUSPECTS
7:55
The three suspected attackers arrived at the airport in a taxi
Ibrahim El Bakraoui
7:58
Two explosions occurred in the airport’s check-in area 9 seconds apart
Najim Laachraoui
8:20
Rail transport to the airport is halted; road closures begin
Mohamed Abrini
9:04
Belgium raises the terror threat level to its highest level
Khalid El Bakraoui
9:11
Explosion in Brussels Maalbeek metro station kills at least 20 people
Osama Krayem
9:27
All public transport is suspended in the city
11:15
Eurostar rail journeys between London and Brussels are cancelled until further notice
17:14
Belgian police detonate a suspicious package at Brussels Airport
19:30
A police raid in Schaerbeek finds a nail bomb and an ISIL flag
117
Two women wounded in Brussels Airport in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Uncredited
A photo of the scene at Brussels Airport in Zaventem
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Jef Versele
118
Passengers and airport staff are evacuated from the terminal building after explosions at Brussels Airport in Zaventem near Brussels
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Uncredited
People wait inside a sport complex–turned–crisis facility for passengers in transit following the evacuation of Brussels Airport
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Sophie Kip
119
A view of the train after the explosion in Maelbeek station in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 @ alxdm (twitter)
People evacuate a tram during an anti-terrorist operation in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Patrik Stollarz
120
A private security guard helps a wounded women outside the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Uncredited
A victim receives first aid near Maalbeek metro station
Brussels, Belgium, 22.03.2016 Emmanuel Dunand
121
Attacks - Others AUSTRALIA
23.09.2014
ALGERIA
24.09.2014
CANADA
CANADA
22.10.2014
NEW YORK
23.10.2014
SAUDI ARABIA
AUSTRALIA
15.12.2014
FRANCE
21.12.2014
FRANCE
22.01.2015
TURKEY
16.01.2015
BOSNIA
21.12.2015
LIBYA
27.01.2015
EGYPT
29.01.2015
LIBYA
12.02.2015
DENMARK
15.02.2015
LIBYA
15.02.2015
LIBYA
20.02.2015
TUNISIA
18.03.2015
YEMEN
20.03.2015
TURKEY
01.04.2015
EGYPT
02.04.2015
LIBYA
05.04.2015
SAUDI ARABIA
LIBYA
12.04.2015
08.04.2015
deaths injured
122
20.10.2014
22.11.2014
EGYPT
12.04.2015
YEMEN
YEMEN
22.05.2015
SAUDI ARABIA
AFGHANISTAN
KUWAIT
26.05.2015
SAUDI ARABIA
YEMEN
BANGLADESH
TURKEY
03.06.2015
07.08.2015
02.09.2015
28.09.2015
10.10.2015
30.04.2015
29.05.2015
SAUDI ARABIA
30.04.2015
LIBYA
31.05.2015
TURKEY
05.06.2015
YEMEN
17.05.2015
TUNISIA
26.06.2015
TURKEY
20.07.2015
EGYPT
12.08.2015
EGYPT
26.08.2015
GERMANY
17.09.2015
YEMEN
24.09.2015
BANGLADESH
03.10.2015
YEMEN
06.10.2015
BANGLADESH
24.10.2015
TURKEY
30.10.2015
123
Attacks - Others EGYPT
LEBANON
BANGLADESH
31.10.2015
12.11.2015
26.11.2015
BANGLADESH
FRANCE
04.11.2015
18.11.2015
EGYPT
04.11.2015
EGYPT
24.11.2015
CALIFORNIA
02.12.2015
YEMEN
07.12.2015
07.01.2016
EGYPT
08.01.2016
INDONESIA
14.01.2016
LIBYA
04.01.2016
PENNSYLVANIA
FRANCE
11.01.2016
TURKEY
12.01.2016
YEMEN
29.01.2016
YEMEN
04.03.2016
deaths injured
124
125
Attacks - Beheadings SYRIAN SOLDIERS
25.07.2014
KHALED SHARROUF
15.08.2014
JAMES FOLEY
ALI ALSAYYED
28.08.2014
KURDISH SOLDIER
29.08.2014
STEVEN SOTLOFF
ABBAS MEDLEJ
06.09.2014
DAVID HAINES
13.09.2014
GHAZNI LOCALS
20.09.2015
HERVÉ GOURDEL
24.09.2014
KOBANE LOCALS
01.10.2014
ALAN HENNING
03.10.2014
BAIJI LOCALS
10.10.2014
RAAD AL-AZZAWI, 11.10.2014 OTHERS
PETER KASSIG
16.11.2014
SYRIAN SOLDIERS
16.11.2014
DESERTERS
12.2014
HARUNAYUKAWA KENJI GOTO
HUJAM SURCHI
28.01.2015
EGYPT SPIES
02.2015
COPTIC EGYPTIANS
15.02.2015
ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIANS
19.04.2015
TOMISLAV SALOPEK
12.09.2015
KHALED AL-ASAAD
18.09.2015
126
19.08.2014
02.09.2014
01.2015
MAGOMID KHASIEV
02.12.2015
deaths
127
This photo allegedly shows the Shi’ite Al-Qubba Husseiniya mosque exploding in Mosul, Iraq
Two men lie side by side in a pool of blood where they were tied up and shot in a brutal bout of fighting between disparate rebel factions in Syria’s civil war
128
Mosul, Iraq, Undated Uncredited
Aleppo, Syria, 08.01.2014 AFP
A wounded man layson the ground at the site of an explosion in Ankara, Turkey
ISIS terrorists have released this photo of a man being executed by beheading in Iraq
129
Ankara, Turkey, 10.10.2015 Ercin Top
Iraq, 01.2016 ISIL Media Outlet
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