ISIS (Islamic State) Is On The March And They Are Winning

It Doesn’t Matter If You Call It ISIS, ISIL Or Islamic State, The Extremist Brand Is Winning -- Adam Taylor, Washington Post

Earlier this summer, the Associated Press announced that it would no longer refer to the Islamist militants who had taken over swaths of of Syria and Iraq as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and instead would call them ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). The news agency justified the move by saying that it was a more accurate translation of the Arabic original, al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham (DAIISH or داعش), though some observers, including Syria analyst Hassan Hassan, argued that this itself was an oversimplification.

Confusing, right? Since then, things have only got more complicated. On June 29, a spokesman for the group, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, announced that it would renounce the ISIS/ISIL appellation because it had broken down national borders to create a caliphate. It was now simply the Islamic State (al-Dawla al-Islamiya).

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