In 2014, the group seized Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and declared itself a caliphate — a state governed by Islamic principles. Image An unused ISIS suicide car bomb captured by Iraqi ...

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Industries in silk, glass and tiles were developed and Baghdad was the first city in the Islamic world to have its own paper mill. A technique learnt from Chinese travellers. The city attracted ...

At its height, the group controlled a huge swath of Mideast territory and ruled over millions. Today, its brutal ideology still powers offshoots and inspires "lone wolves." ...

The campaign to extinguish the Islamic State “caliphate” — its mini-state that include major cities like Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq — had been intense, involving waves of heavy ...