What the records say
- When
- 2013 – 2025
- Kind
- Armed conflict
- Deaths
- 50,054
- Coordinates
- 35.27° N, 38.84° E
- Incompatibility
- territory
- Type of conflict
- internationalized intrastate
- Types of conflict
- intrastate, internationalized intrastate
- Territory name
- Islamic State
- Region
- Middle East
- Location
- Syria
Placed at the middle of its 6,606 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).
Islamic State
Salafi jihadist militant organisation
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Da'esh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist militant organisation and internationally unrecognised quasi-state. IS occupied a significant amount of territory in Syria during the Syrian civil war and in Iraq when U.S. troops withdrew after the Iraq war.
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The source
- UCDP Battle-Related DeathsUppsala Conflict Data ProgramCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
Nearby in time and place
- Battle of Raqqa2 Mar 2013 · Battle
- Battle of al-Tabqa Airbase28 Aug 2014 · Battle
- 2014 United States rescue operation in Syria4 Jul 2014 · Military operation
- Hatla massacre11 Jun 2013 · Massacre · Deaths 30
- 2nd Battle of the Shaer gas field6 Nov 2014 · Battle
- Battle of the Shaer gas field17 Jul 2014 · Battle
- Deir ez-Zor offensive (December 2014)3 Dec 2014 · Military operation
- A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing 9 people19 May 2012 · Event