caliphate

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Examples

• The goal was to sweep out dictators, which would then bring Islamist movements to power that would rule the Muslim world like the caliphate of old.

• In 2014, when President Obama chose to stop ISIS in its tracks and then later roll back its caliphate, American allies in Iraq still controlled most of the nation.

• Meanwhile, the influence of jihadist groups mushroomed in the chaos, with ISIS rising to control an area the size of Great Britain until the capital of its self-proclaimed caliphate fell in 2017.

• ISIS might have physically lost its so-called caliphate following a series of pre-pandemic military reverses, but the United Nations warns that the group still has 10,000 active fighters in Syria and Iraq and that it is regrouping.

• The ISIS spokesman claims his so-called Caliphate is the victim of the West, not the other way round.

• And these three particular teens also might have been encouraged to see a trip to the caliphate as a way to rebel.

• Are we helping indirectly the militants to build their caliphate?

• He now stands in the self-proclaimed caliphate, also holding a child as well as an automatic weapon.

• Some time ago, I too left my comfortable life in Britain to export the idea of building a Khilafah [caliphate].

• The very nature of their claims to the Caliphate made them more timid.

• They do not distinguish between the Caliphate and the Sultanat.

• The provinces on the Helmund and about Ghazni were invaded as early as the caliphate of Moaiya (662-680).

• It was during Almamun's reign (813–833) that the Caliphate of the East flourished most luxuriantly.

• The capital of the Caliphate had at this time a numerous Jewish community and several synagogues.