Caliphate Reincarnation

... abundance of weapons in the region, terrorism threatens to spread throughout the world, using religious rhetoric as a cover. On June 29, 2014, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, the jihadist organization the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared the establishment of a caliphate on Iraqi and Syrian territory controlled by its militants [1] . On the same day, in accordance with Sharia law, supporters of the Iraqi division of al-Qaeda announced that one of founders of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (aka Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri ...