The Pentagon Has A New Name For ISIS -- CNN
Washington (CNN) -- There's yet another new name for ISIS among those fighting against the terror group. Daesh.
There is already some confusion in Washington about what to call ISIS. Barack Obama and other government leaders call the terror group operating in Iraq and Syria ISIL -- short for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. CNN takes a different tack, calling the group ISIS -- Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
But when Army L. Gen. James Terry, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force was speaking Thursday to reporters at the Pentagon, he referred to ISIS by an acronym for al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham - 'Daesh'.
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