In the summer of 2014 , the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) launched a military offensive in northern Iraq and declared Expressing_publicly a worldwide Islamic caliphate , eliciting Causation another military response from the United States and its allies .

In addition to those three factions , there are also smaller rival groups : the Islamist Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries , led by Ansar al-Sharia , which has had the support of the GNC and was defeated Conquering in Benghazi in 2017 ; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 's ( ISIL 's ) Libyan provinces ; the Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna which expelled Removing ISIL from Derna in July 2015 and was later itself defeated Conquering in Derna by the Tobruk government in 2018 ; as well as many militias and armed groups , whose allegiances often change Change .

Later , the newly formed Creating Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant claimed Statement responsibility in a video .

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) claimed Statement responsibility for the attack plot , the first time the militant group took Conquering credit for an attack in the United States .

In 2014 , elements of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis group pledged Commitment allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) and proclaimed Statement themselves Sinai Province , and a part of ISIL .

While rebel ranks consisted Forming_relationships mostly of the local peasantry , urban notables and Bedouin tribes also formed Coming_to_be an integral part of the revolt , which was a collective reaction to Egypt 's gradual elimination of the unofficial rights and privileges previously enjoyed by the various classes of society in the Levant under Ottoman rule .

As part of Muhammad Ali 's modernization policies , Ibrahim Pasha , the Egyptian governor of the Levant , issued Statement conscription orders for a fifth of all Muslim males of fighting age .

The resulting Causation military expedition Conquering of primarily Frankish nobles , known as the Princes ' Crusade , not only re-captured Attack much of Anatolia but went on to conquer Conquering the Holy Land ( the Levant ) , which had fallen Motion_directional to Islamic expansion Expansion as early as the 7th century , and culminated Process_end in July 1099 in the re-conquest Recovering of Jerusalem and the establishment Creating of the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

Opération Chammal is the French military operation which is currently ongoing in Iraq and Syria in an attempt to contain Containing the expansion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to support Supporting the Iraqi Army .

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack Attack .

The insurgency Change_of_leadership in the North Caucasus is a low-level armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between Russia and militants associated Collaboration with the Caucasus Emirate and , since June 2015 , Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) groups .

The crusader invasion of Egypt ( 1154–1169 ) was a series of campaigns undertaken Action by the Kingdom of Jerusalem to strengthen Cause_change_of_strength its position in the Levant by taking advantage of the weakness of Fatimid Egypt .

Kobanî , which is approximately 10 km from Suruç , was until January under siege by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) forces .

The next day , ISIL ( the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ) claimed Statement responsibility for the attack .

This incident Protest led to Causation violence Violence in Al Anbar Governorate between the Iraqi Army and a loose alliance of tribal militias and other groups fighting Hostile_encounter alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) .

In 2014 , the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) from Syria to Iraq 's western provinces prompted Causation the U.S. to intervene Hindering again , alongside other militaries , to combat ISIL .

The Northern Iraq offensive began Process_start on 4 June 2014 , when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ; sometimes referred Statement to as the Islamic State ( IS ) ) and aligned forces began Process_start a major offensive in northern Iraq against the Iraqi government , following earlier clashes that had begun Process_start in December 2013 .

However , the defeat at Ain Jalut forced Motion the Ilkhanate armies out of Syria and the Levant .

The First Battle of Tikrit was a battle Hostile_encounter for the Iraqi city of Tikrit following the city 's capture Conquering by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) and Ba'athist Loyalists during the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive .

However , the unexpected rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) terror group—also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS ) —led to a new operation against terror in the Middle East and South Asia , Operation Inherent Resolve .

Further successful campaigns Military_operation were carried out Military_operation in the Levant , in the mountains east of Assyria , against the kingdoms of Urartu , Cilicia and the Neo-Hittites of Anatolia , and against the Arabs in the northern Arabian deserts .

Riding from the steppes of Central Asia , the Seljuq replicated tactics practiced Practice by the Huns hundreds of years earlier against a similar Roman opponent but now combining Cause_to_amalgamate it with new-found Islamic zeal ; in many ways Action , the Seljuq resumed Process_start the conquests Conquering of the Muslims in the Byzantine–Arab Wars initiated Process_start by the Rashidun , Umayyad and Abassid Caliphate in the Levant , North Africa and Asia Minor .

The Sinjar massacre was the genocidal killing Killing and abduction Kidnapping of thousands of Yazidi men in Sinjar ( `` Şingal '' ) city and Sinjar District in Iraq 's Nineveh Governorate by the Islamic terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIS ) in August 2014 .

In Libya the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) has been able to control Control some limited Limiting territory in the ongoing civil war Hostile_encounter since 2014 , amid allegations of local collaboration between the otherwise rivalling AQIM and ISIL .