The extremist group that's taken over a large swath of western and northern Iraq announced on Sunday the establishment of a "caliphate," an Islamic state stretching across the region, and said it would now be known as the Islamic State rather than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/29/world/meast/iraq-developments-roundup/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/27/world/meast/iraq-mass-executions/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/25/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html
More than 1 million Iraqis have fled their homes as ISIS continues armed siege
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html
ISIS: The first terror group to build an Islamic state?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/world/meast/who-is-the-isis/index.html
Gunmen use Iraqi students as human shields; bombs wrack Baghdad
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/07/world/meast/iraq-attacks/index.html
Five car bombs kill 21 in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/07/world/meast/iraq-violence/index.html
Grisly scene in Iraq: 'See these children? See what's left from the mortar?'
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/world/meast/iraq-mosul-attacks/index.html
