Islamic State

The Islamic State is a Sunni Muslim terrorist organization formed in 2013 in Iraq and Syria after the United States withdrawal from Iraq in 2011.
==History==
===2013-2016===
The Islamic State, known as IS for short, proceeded to terrorize much of the Middle East setting up an actual state according to its extreme interpretation of Islam in the portions of both Iraq and Syria it controlled. Fighting a war against an array of nations with often opposing goals, IS finally met its demise as an actual state controlling territory in Damascus on September 29th, 2016 when Turkey and its allies secured what had been the capital of the self-declared Islamic State in the Fertile Crescent.
===2017-2020===
IS continued to exist as a terrorist organization for many years after 2016 conducting numerous attacks around the world. IS also infiltrated Afghanistan and Pakistan, gaining a foothold in both nations until an Iran led Eurasian intervention drive them out between 2016 and 2018. However, IS regrouped and took part in the Egyptian Civil War contributing to the Islamist victory and the formation of the Cairo Caliphate in 2020.
===2021-2050===
After 2020, former IS militants became the core of the special forces or shock troops of the Cairo Caliphate and later the North African Caliphate. They were answerable directly to the Caliph in Cairo. They contributed the annexation of Sudan in 2021 and Cairo's victory in the Horn of Africa War and the Second Algerian Civil War in the 2025. Due in part to IS, a Sunni Muslim Caliphate stretched across the entirety of North Africa and the Sahara Desert by 2030 serving as a model for a successful modern 21st century Sunni Muslim theocratic civilization. Although former IS members didn't call the shots, they were part of the elite of the NAC.
Category:Terrorist Organizations
Category:Middle East