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29 - Elements of Genocidal Ideology in Al-Qaeda and Its Offshoots, including Islamic State

from Part IV - Globalisation and Genocide since the Cold War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2023

By
Hayat Alvi
Edited by
Ben Kiernan ,
Wendy Lower ,
Norman Naimark  and
Scott Straus
Ben Kiernan
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Wendy Lower
Affiliation:
Claremont McKenna College, California
Norman Naimark
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Scott Straus
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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In June 2014, the Islamic State (IS), at the time calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), launched a military campaign from its base in Syria into Mosul, Iraq. This signified the terrorist organisation’s early stages of establishing the so-called Caliphate under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Following this incredible conquest of Mosul, the ISIS bureaucracy set up shop within its territories in Iraq and its leadership announced its five-year plan, encompassing the territorial conquest of land stretching from parts of western China; Europe; all of North, Central, East and West Africa; and the entire Indian subcontinent including Sri Lanka. (See Map 29.1.)

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The Cambridge World History of Genocide , pp. 700 - 721
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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