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Islamic State: a chronology

The militant Islamist group that has seized swaths of Iraq and Syria has its roots in the al Qaeda insurgency that arose after the U.S. led an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Islamic State: a chronology

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  1. Islamic State: a chronology

  2. A part faithful to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant waves an ISIL banner in Raqqa, Syria June 29, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  3. Fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant blaze appropriated cigarettes in Raqqa, Syria April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  4. Militant Islamist contenders ride stallions as they partake in a military parade along the avenues of northern Raqqa territory, Syria June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  5. A activist Islamist contender waving a banner, cheers as he participates in a military parade along the roads of Syria's northern Raqqa area June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  6. Islamic State aggressors grasp in festivity in the wake of assuming control Tabqa air base close Raqqa city, Syria August 24, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  7. An Islamic State aggressor (L) remains by occupants as they hold bits of destruction from a Syrian war plane after it slammed in Raqqa, upper east Syria September 16, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  8. An Islamic State contender sits at a checkpoint utilized by Kurdish warriors as a part of al-Jurn town in the farmland of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after the Islamic State contenders took control of the region October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  9. An outfitted motorcade having a place with individuals from Derna's Islamic Youth Council, comprising of previous individuals from civilian armies from the town of Derna, drive along a street in Derna, eastern Libya, subsequent to vowing steadfastness to Islamic State, October 3, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  10. An Islamic State contender motions from a vehicle in the field of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after the Islamic State warriors took control of the zone October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  11. Islamic State boards are seen along a road in Raqqa, eastern Syria, October 29, 2014. The announcement understands: "We will win regardless of the worldwide coalition". REUTERS/Nour Fourat

  12. An Islamic State banner is seen on a working in eastern Kobani, as seen from the Turkish fringe intersection of Mursitpinar as Kurdish Peshmerga strengths battle against Islamic State warriors, November 1, 2014. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

  13. A man strolls past a harmed mosque after what activists said were airstrikes by powers faithful to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the Islamic State November 25, 2014. REUTERS/Nour Fourat

  14. A dead body, accepted to have a place with one of the Islamic State warriors, lays on rubble at an Islamic State previous base that was hit by U.S.- drove air strikes close to the town of Sinjar, Iraq December 22, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  15. A man strolls inside a harmed working with an Islamic banner drawn on the divider in the attacked town of Arbeen in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, Syria January 17, 2015. The content on the divider peruses: "Al-Qaeda's Jihad on the place that is known for Sham, Al-Nusra front for the general population of Sham, an undertaking for the butcher of Nasiriyah and unbelievers". REUTERS/Yaseen Al-Bushy

  16. A conceal, dark clad activist, who was been distinguished by the Washington Post daily paper as a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi, waves a blade in despite everything this picture from a 2014 video got from SITE Intel Group February 26, 2015. Agents trust that the veiled executioner known as "Jihadi John", who fronted Islamic State decapitating recordings, is Emwazi, two U.S. government sources said. REUTERS/SITE Intel Group/Handout by means of Reuters

  17. An Islamic State banner holds tight the mass of a relinquished working in Tel Hamis in Hasaka wide open, Syria, after the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) took control of the territory March 1, 2015. REUTERS/Rodi Said

  18. Islamic State activists lead what are said to be Ethiopian Christians along a shoreline in Wilayat Barqa, in regardless this picture from an undated video made accessible on an online networking site on April 19, 2015. The video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on online networking locales seemed to show activists shooting and decapitating around 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. REUTERS/Social Media Website by means of Reuters TV

  19. A vehicle having a place with Shi�ite volunteer army warriors pulls the body of an Islamic State contender, who was executed amid conflicts with Iraqi powers, in Tikrit, Iraq April 1, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

  20. Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) contenders accumulate weapons they caught from Islamic State warriors amid conflicts in the southern wide open of Ras al-Ain, Syria April 26, 2015. The dead bodies on the ground have a place with Islamic State warriors, as indicated by the YPG. REUTERS/Rodi Said

  21. An undated photo of a man portrayed as Abdelhamid Abaaoud that was distributed in the Islamic State's online magazine Dabiq and posted on a social networking site. The Belgian national initiated the Nov. 13 assaults focusing on bistros, a show corridor and games stadium in Paris in which 130 individuals were murdered. REUTERS/Social Media Website through Reuters TV

  22. An picture circulated by Islamic State aggressors on online networking on August 25, 2015 indicates to demonstrate the devastation of a Roman-time sanctuary in Palmyra, Syria. The Arabic script seen along the base edge of the photo peruses, "The snippet of the blast of the Baal Shamin agnostic sanctuary in the city of Tadmour". REUTERS/Social Media

  23. Men, who the Democratic Forces of Syria warriors asserted were Islamic State contenders, stroll as they are taken detainees after SDF progressed in the southern rustic range of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said

  24. Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) warriors examine a dead assortment of what they said was an Islamic State contender inside a shop in Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, August 7, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said

  25. Militant Islamist warriors partake in a military parade along the avenues of northern Raqqa territory, Syria June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

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