ISLAMIC STATE: STILL IN BUSINESS
May 26th, 2022
While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a shadow of its former self in the Middle East, it has spawned global affiliates and is still very much in business, posing ongoing terrorist financing threats.
At the peak of its power as a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in 2015, ISIS controlled around a third of Syria’s territory and 40%of Iraq, with some 7.7 million people under its rule. (1) By late 2017, following military campaigns by an assortment of actors, both local and international, ISIS, also known as ISIL, Islamic State and Daesh (its Arabic ...
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