PLC staff joined IHAO on a delivery to the western part of Mosul. Day by day neighborhoods were being freed from ISIS control, and sights and sounds of fighting were all around. Many people were desperate to receive food after more than two years being cut off from aid. Here, an ISIS sign is seen at the southern entrance to the city. A rough translation reads, "The Islamic State Caliphate Established on Prophesy."
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, now formally dismissing “of Iraq and Syria” from its title, declared an Islamic state stretching from northeastern Iraq to Aleppo, Syria today.
The declaration dubbed the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph—or political successor to the prophet Mohammed—a role that hasn’t been filled since 1924.
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