Sentences with phrase «islamist caliphate»

Its eight - year bid to carve out an Islamist caliphate has driven millions from their homes, no fewer than 200,000 of them are now based in Diffa, with little prospect of returning home.

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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.»

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.

For the first time since the caliphate was abolished in 1924, the country was governed by a prime minister (Necmettin Erbakan), who was accused of being «Islamist» (even though he continued to «deny all the charges»).