Islamic state of iraq 1

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

By keyska2
  • Period: to

    US involvement in Iraq

  • Al Qaeda in Iraq is declared a FTO by DoS

  • Name changed to Mujahideen Shura Council

    Date unclear

  • Name changed to Islamic State in Iraq or ISI

  • Period: to

    Syrian Civil War

    to present day

  • US Pulls out of Iraq

  • ISIL raids iraqi prison to release imates for jihad

    date unclear

  • ISIL takes control of Fallujah and Ramadi

    First report of incidents
  • Period: to

    ISIL gains territory in northern Syria

    dates unclear

  • ISIL takes control of Tikrit and Mosul

    also take over of prisons and an oil refinery

  • ISIL takes control of Tel 'Afar Military Airport

    acquiries resources

  • Changes name to Islamic State

  • ISIL declares controlled territory as Caliphate

    Names Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Caliph

  • Obama Orders Airstrikes against ISIL

  • ISIL releases footage of a US journalist being killed

  • UK raises terror threat level to severe

  • Video of US journalist Sotloff being killed

  • Australian terror level to high