Sentences with phrase «islamic caliphate»

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.

Both Iran and Turkey are competing for middle - eastern influence, both having (unspoken) ambitions to become the head of a new Islamic caliphate - as a successor of the Ottoman empire, or at the very least, a USSR or European Union alliance of Middle Eastern nations.

The second myth about the rise of science is that Westerners only picked up the baton from the ancient Greeks, or, as has been more recently alleged, the Islamic caliphate.

Ahok's imprisonment hasn't cooled the archipelago's radical Islamist elements — almost a quarter of high school and college students recently said they would fight to establish an Islamic caliphate in Indonesia.

The first of these was in the east and so was the second, the vast Islamic caliphate.

Here, as Fowden says, was a path out of antiquity that did not lead to the Renaissance.The second commonwealth arose from the disintegration of the Islamic caliphate in the middle of the ninth century.

«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.

«The image that was portrayed to these girls of an Islamic caliphate where they'd be a little closer to heaven simply hasn't lived up to the promise.

Islamic caliphates, linked by vigorous trade, various political relationships, a common language and a common religion, stretched from India to northern Africa and Spain.

Not exact matches

«Islamic State,» or «IS» as it is also known, operates in parts of Syria and Iraq in its mission to establish a caliphate, but has recently orchestrated more attacks abroad, the latest being Friday's attack on various bars, restaurants and a concert hall venue in Paris.

Al - Baghdadi's purported appearance in Mosul came five days after his group declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the territories it holds in Iraq and Syria.

Separately, a U.S. official said three drones — two US and one British — targeted the vehicle in which Emwazi was believed to be traveling in Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State's self - proclaimed caliphate in northern Syria.

And as «self - styled caliphates» push Islamic terrorism across international borders, Christians are harmed in less obvious ways.

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.»

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.

For Muslims the caliphate was the historic symbol of Islamic glory.

With such practical arrangements in place, it is unsurprising that in 2014 the Islamic State has been able to consolidate its hold on areas in Syria and attempt to expand the territory of its declared caliphate.

Years of sectarian conflict and the brutal, so - called caliphate of the Islamic State threaten all Iraqis, not least of all paperless deportees from the United States.

was of critical importance in the Islamic community which was at that time organized around the three Caliphates — the Umayyad of Cordova, the Fatimid of Cairo, and the Abbasid of Baghdad — together with the various provincial dynasties which had grown up.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is «a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self - proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria» (Wikipedia).

The title «City of Ghosts,» Matthew Heineman's powerful and unnerving new documentary, refers initially to the Syrian metropolis of Raqqa, the city whose soul was close to destroyed when the Islamic State seized it and declared it the capital of their caliphate.

Currently, terrorism reached large dimension in the Middle East with the rise of so - called Islamic State that aims to expand his caliphate throughout the Middle East, which characterizes itself by the

Currently, terrorism reached large dimension in the Middle East with the rise of so - called Islamic State that aims to expand his caliphate throughout the Middle East, which characterizes itself by the Sharia, the Islamic Law interpreted from the Alcoran, establishing connections in Europe and other regions of the world in order to carry out attacks that may confer upon them authority through terror.