Traduction de «État islamique en Irak et au Levant » (Français → Anglais) :

While ISIS has renamed itself several times since 2004 — al Qaeda in Iraq, the Mujahideen Shura Council and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in Syria — it is literally the same insurgent group that U.S. forces have been battling for over a decade.

The intelligence community estimates there are between 75,000 and 115,000 fighters in Syria, including more than 20,000 affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaeda affiliate.

Others indicate that the Assad regime is buying oil products from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and refraining from targeting its forces, instead hitting more moderate rebels supported by western countries, a Machiavellian strategy that drives all sides to extremes.

E. whereas there is no single political opposition group; whereas ‘opposition or rebel groups’, including groups like the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or the Jabhat al-Nusra groups, constitute a complex mixture of armed groups, including jihadist factions, with various allegiances fighting a proxy war in Syria in which in‑fighting is estimated to have led to 1 400 deaths; whereas over 10 000 foreigners are estimated to be fighting with these armed groups; whereas the fact that scores of them are EU citizens has alarmed Western governments about possible dire repercussions; whereas the danger of the conflict spilling ov ...[+++]er into the whole region is terrifying;

H. whereas the Geneva II conference on Syria was launched on 22 January 2014 on the basis of the Geneva communiqué of June 2012 and following intense efforts by the international community; whereas the Syrian opposition is represented by the National Coalition of Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, while several rebel groups such as ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra are not represented; whereas the Democratic Unity Party (PYD), which controls the so-called Western Kurdistan, is not represented; whereas Iran was disinvited from the conference;

B. whereas the jihadist al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State (IS) – formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – has conquered parts of eastern Syria, including Syria’s largest dam and the strategically important Tabqa airbase, and large parts of Iraq, and has subsequently perpetrated summary executions of citizens, the imposition of a harsh interpretation of Sharia law, and the destruction of Shiite, Sufi, Sunni and Christian places of worship and shrines; whereas in the last months the IS has targeted more cities and ...[+++] areas and has massacred, kidnapped and killed civilians, soldiers, members of local tribes, journalists, first-aid helpers, and members of sects and other religious minorities in eastern Syria and northern Iraq, in a continuing ongoing stream of excessive violence; whereas women and girls are one of the most vulnerable groups among the refugees and there are reports of the deliberate targeting of women and girls in Iraq and of kidnapping, rape and forced marriage by militants of the IS and other armed groups; whereas four million civilians are thought to be living under IS rule in Iraq and Syria, often in extremely deplorable humanitarian conditions;