Please note the key figures displayed below reflect data from 2017 only. The Islamic State (IS) was officially founded in June 2014 following the fall of Mosul and the merger of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, then known as the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), with the al-Nusra Front in Syria (figures presented below are for 2017-present only as ACLED has not yet covered 2014-2016).…
