Iraq Terror Group Boasts of Violent Numbers in Annual Report

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIL or ISIS, a radical al-Qaeda-inspired group, is extremely well organized. The group has a sophisticated social media strategy that allows it to boast of its advances, and it even publishes annual reports online, showcasing its war operations.

The group, with an estimated 15,000 members, has taken control of northern Iraq with impressive swiftness. Its advance threatens to end Iraq as we know it and perhaps destabilize the entire region

ISIL has so far issued two online reports, one for 2012, and one for 2013. In these reports, called al-Naba (the news), ISIL has even included slick-looking infographics to detail the numbers and types of successful attacks the group claims to have carried out. Read more...