Rise, Spread, and Fall of the Islamic State in Iraq
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On December 10, the US announced that its combat mission in Iraq has ended, four years after it helped defeat the jihadist Islamic group there.
The Islamic State emerged from the remnants of al Qaeda in Iraq, a local offshoot of al Qaeda founded by Abu Musab al Zarqawi in 2004.
The group which had faded into obscurity, began to reemerge in 2011 by taking advantage of the growing instability in Iraq and Syria.
In June 2014, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi announced the formation of a caliphate stretching from Aleppo in Syria to Diyala in Iraq, and renamed the group the Islamic State.
In 2015, ISIS expanded into a network of affiliates in at least eight other countries while its branches, supporters, and affiliates increasingly carried out attacks beyond t...