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Islamic State is the successor organization to al-Qaeda Iraq when that organization split off from al-Qaeda and decided to create a paramilitary state in northeastern Syria in 2013 and then allied with the former Baathists in Iraq to conquer a large swath of the Iraqi northwest in 2014. Al-Qaeda Iraq was founded in 1999 and became infamous for terrorist attacks in Iraq in 2003.

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