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The group's goal is to establish a worldwide caliphate, with leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]] as Caliph. ISIS had captured large amounts of land including more than half of Syria and about 1.83/3 of Iraq at its height, but by 2015, foreign intervention began to push them back. Following the liberation of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, ISIS has effectively collapsed and as of November of 2017, no longer posses meaningful territorial holdings, has been defeated in both Iraq and Syria, and has lost all strongholds in both nations. | The group's goal is to establish a worldwide caliphate, with leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]] as Caliph. ISIS had captured large amounts of land including more than half of Syria and about 1.83/3 of Iraq at its height, but by 2015, foreign intervention began to push them back. Following the liberation of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, ISIS has effectively collapsed and as of November of 2017, no longer posses meaningful territorial holdings, has been defeated in both Iraq and Syria, and has lost all strongholds in both nations. | ||
al-Baghdadi was killed during a U.S. Delta Force raid in Idlib, Northwest Syria on October 26, 2019. [[Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi]] has since taken over as | al-Baghdadi was killed during a U.S. Delta Force raid in Idlib, Northwest Syria on October 26, 2019. [[Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi]] has since taken over as ISIS' new Caliph. | ||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||