Sentences with phrase «isis caliphate»

Unlike them, we have yet to witness the severed heads of enemies of the state decorating the fences of public squares, gay people thrown off rooftops, or dissidents crucified — some of the more brutal images covertly captured by their cameras in the capital of the ISIS caliphate, Raqqa.

The rift between the two organisations continues as members of al - Qaeda say that the so - called ISIS caliphate is «illegitimate,» and the Taliban's chieftain is the true «Emir of the Believers.

Not exact matches

Not unforeseeably, these untrained loyalists, who essentially became Iraq's frontline security forces, almost immediately dropped their weapons and ran at the first sign of ISIS's rapid ascent and advance when the group declared itself a caliphate in 2014.

An American Christian aid group reported that the U.N. camps are «dangerous» places where ISIS, militias, and gangs traffic in women and threaten men who refuse to swear allegiance to the caliphate.

Last week, members of ISIS — the «Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,» a Sunni Islamist group that recently has captured parts of Iraq and declared a new caliphate — began going through the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and marking the homes of Christians with the Arabic letter «Nun.»

But as a territory - holding entity, as a self - proclaimed caliphate, ISIS is pretty well - routed.

Many are drawn in by the allure of the establishment of a caliphate, whether or not they agree with ISIS» tactics.

ISIS or ISIL - a radical and merciless bunch of few thousand caliphate - friendly Islamists - is not something...

«Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny Muslims liberty and safety under the Islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people,» the ISIS militant said in the video.

As «People of the Book» under classical Islamic law — which ISIS has purported to restore in its newly - declared caliphate — Christians can choose to abide by the terms of the Dhimma, the notional contract that governs the treatment of Christians, Jews, and some other minorities.

There is no question in my mind that if [ISIS] succeeded in establishing its so - called caliphate, it would seek to destroy what remains of ethnic and religious mosaic once thriving in the region.

Since their rise to prominence in Syria and nearby parts of Iraq, ISIS has killed thousands, including Christians as well as many fellow Muslims in their efforts to establish a caliphate.

The Khurasan province, which ISIS imagines as an integral part of its caliphate, includes Afghanistan and surrounding areas.

Her claim today at the Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting that ISIS is motivated by the words of U.S. lawmakers, rather than a deep ideological commitment to waging war on the West to expand their caliphate, shows a shocking lack of understanding of the jihadists» true motivations.»

It is part of the imagined Khorasan territory of the ancient caliphate that ISIS seeks to recreate.

More than 400 battle - hardened ISIS war criminals have also returned to the country, fleeing the eminent collapse of the Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

ISIS brides have revealed the reality of being a wife in the caliphate, describing jihadi speed - dating, women fighting in dormitories and religious A modern, full service hotel in Wuxi New District in China between Shanghai and Nanjing, the new Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Wuxi is in the center of China

ISIS brides have revealed the reality of being a wife in the caliphate, describing jihadi speed - dating, women fighting in dormitories and religious Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht.

ISIS meanwhile counters RBSS's truth campaign with a campaign of its own, disseminating on the Internet videos glorifying its victories, atrocities (shown graphically as recruitment snuff films), the «Eden» of the caliphate itself.

They include Aziz, a former hard - partying college student who now heads the organization; Hamoud, a cofounder of RBSS, who strengthens his resolve by watching the video ISIS took of the execution of his father (a brother was subsequently murdered and another is missing); Hussam, a law student turned reporter who was nearly nabbed by ISIS with encrypted video on his phone; and Mohamad, a former math teacher who joined the revolt against Assad after a student was arrested and has since followed up with resistance to the caliphate.

Equally as compelling is contemporary Matthew Heinemann's (Cartel Land) new film City of Ghosts; which focuses on the anonymous activists of Raqqa, who are being slaughtered silently in the heartland of ISIS's self - declared caliphate.

A big part of the story is the footage that these guys have captured and smuggled outside of the city to see life inside the capital of ISIS and see life inside the «caliphate» and the horrors and daily human rights violations that are committed there.

Here ISIS purveys its slick Hollywood - style recruitment videos and RBSS counters with the ugly truth of life inside the caliphate.

Less remarked is that ISIS talked a big game in the caliphate's first year, but pretty much concentrated on local genocide, rape, and enslavement - we were blowing them up first before they got to Paris.