The Sunni Islamist activist group whose three-week blitz through northern Iraq has nearly upended the country's breakable unity announced itself as a new Islamist "caliphate" on Sunday, unilaterally announcing statehood and demanding loyalty from other Islamist groups.
The announcment was made in Arabic on the first day of Ramadan, by speaker Abu Mohammed Al Adnani via an audio file. He also declared Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, as the new leader. The announcement revives the idea of an Islamic caliphate that hasn't existed as a recognized political body since it was abolished 90 years ago by Kemal Atatürk, the first president of modern Turkey. The Sunni Islamist activist group whose three-week blitz through northern Iraq has nearly upended the country's breakable unity announced itself as a new Islamist "caliphate" on Sunday, unilaterally announcing statehood and demanding loyalty from other Islamist groups.
The Sunni Islamist
activist group whose three-week blitz through northern Iraq has nearly upended
the country's breakable unity announced itself as a new Islamist
"caliphate" on Sunday, unilaterally announcing statehood and
demanding loyalty from other Islamist groups.
The announcment was made
in Arabic on the first day of Ramadan, by speaker Abu Mohammed Al Adnani via an audio file. He also declared Abu
Bakr Al Baghdadi, as the new leader. The announcement revives the idea of an
Islamic caliphate that hasn't existed as a recognized political body since it
was abolished 90 years ago by Kemal Atatürk, the first president of modern
Turkey.
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