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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Jihadist armed group that seized and governed territory across Syria and Iraq in the mid-2010s, and destroyed or trafficked antiquities in the areas it held.

Known aliases

Daesh
Islamic State

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Syria's former antiquities chief documents how 30,000 objects left Deir ez-Zor ahead of ISIS

Maamoun Abdulkarim ran Syria's antiquities directorate when the Deir ez-Zor Museum was emptied in the summers of 2014 and 2015, and he has now published his own account of the operation in a curatorship journal.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption26
Hype gap+22
Incentives65
Confidence50