Caliphate Reincarnation

... challenges not only to Muslim states, but to the whole world as well. Caliph and Its Host The Islamic State organization was formed in 2006 in Iraq as a result of a merger of eleven radical Islamist groups that split off from Al-Qaeda of Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the spiritual leader and close associate of Osama bin Laden, took an active part in creating the organization. The Slate Group, By Joshua Keating and Chris Kirk The Middle East Friendship Chart. Infographics It is well-known that until 2013, the Islamic State grouping was regarded as an ordinary Sunni autonomous armed unit and numbered no more than four thousand people [2] . It was made up of mostly former soldiers ...