The vicious schism between Sunni and Shia has been poisoning Islam for 1,400 years - and it's getting worse

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The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. The same is true of the violence, tension or oppression currently gripping the Muslim world from Iraq and Iran, though Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan.</p> <p>A single problem lies behind all that friction and hostility. On Tuesday, Britain's leading Muslim politician, the Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi, obliquely addressed it in a speech she made in Oman, the Arab state at the south-east corner of the Arabian Peninsula strategically positioned at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The religious tolerance of the Sultanate, she suggested, offered a model for the whole of the Islamic world. 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Oman is unusual because its Sunni and Shia residents are outnumbered by a third sect, the Ibadis, who constitute more than half the population. In many countries, the Sunni and the Shia are today head-to-head.</p>   <div id="thirdparty01"></div>  <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--teads" style="margin-bottom: 20px"><div id="teads-inread"></div></div> <div class="inline-prompt"> <span class="logo"></span> <h3>Download the new Independent Premium app</h3> <p>Sharing the full story, not just the headlines</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841/https://independent.onelink.me/wgiA/a1620fe"><button class="btn subscribe-one">Download now</button></a> </div> <div id="article-im-prompt"></div> <p>The rift between the two great Islamic denominations runs like a tectonic fault-line along what is known as the Shia Crescent, starting in Lebanon in the north and curving through Syria and Iraq to the Gulf and to Iran and further east.</p> <div id="teads-amp-ad" class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-ad width="300" height="1" class="desktop-hidden ad-center i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" data-use-same-domain-rendering-until-deprecated="" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{"tile":"teads","gs_channels":["shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist","shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist","shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2","shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me","neg_omg_spotx","lner_block_v2","shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3","shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20","shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda","skyonecurfew_block","shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020","shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19","shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20","shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2","huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist","shadow9hu7_pos_ysl","lner_block","safe_aegis","shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist","shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19","shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20","nestle_bespoke","shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft","facebook_block","shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly","shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword","shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02","shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01","shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03","gv_terrorism","shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020","shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist","shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19","shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20","gs_politics","gv_death_injury","gv_military","safe_from_emirates_blacklist","gs_politics_misc","gv_safe_adult","gv_safe_arms","gv_safe_crime","gv_safe_download","gv_safe_drugs","gv_safe_hatespeech","gv_safe_obscenity","gv_safe_tobacco","pos_amazon_carnival_row_04","pos_animal_cruelty","pos_apple","pos_coronavirus2019_covid19","pos_google","pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20","pos_santander_cycles","pos_society_lgbt","safe_from_facebook_blacklist","shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe","shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19"],"docFormat":"amp","article":"691546","pagetype":"image","topictags":["middleeast_conflict","islam"]}}" layout="responsive" i-amphtml-layout="responsive"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display:block;padding-top:0.3333%;"></i-amphtml-sizer> </amp-ad> </div> <p>The division between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the oldest in the Middle East - and yet it is one which seems increasingly to be shaping the destiny of this troubled region as thousands of devotees from both sides pour into Syria. Jihadist al-Qa'ida volunteers on the Sunni side and Hezbollah militants on the Shia, are joining what is fast becoming a transnational civil war between the two factions.</p> <p>There are around one and a half billion Muslims in the world. Of these, somewhere between 10 and 20 per cent - estimates vary considerably - are Shia. In most countries these Shia are minorities in a Sunni homeland. But in Iraq, Iran, Bahrain and Azerbaijan they outnumber their co-religionists.</p> <div id="taboola-carousel-thumbnails" data-sort-time="" class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--inline-taboola ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-embed width="300" height="300" class="desktop-hidden i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="taboola" layout="responsive" data-publisher="eslmedia-theindependent" data-mode="alternating-thumbnails-d1" data-placement="Carousel Thumbnails" data-target_type="mix" data-article="auto" i-amphtml-layout="responsive"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display:block;padding-top:100.0000%;"></i-amphtml-sizer> </amp-embed> </div> <p> </p> <figure class="inline-media align-none" amp-fx="fade-in"> <amp-img on="tap:inline-image-gallery,inline-image-carousel.goToSlide(index=1)" tabindex="0" role="button" class="inline-image-gallery-trigger i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" data-gallery-length="3" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/v2-35-Karbala-Corbis.jpg" width="2048" height="1536" layout="responsive" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/v2-35-Karbala-Corbis.jpg?w660 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/v2-35-Karbala-Corbis.jpg?w800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/v2-35-Karbala-Corbis.jpg?w600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/v2-35-Karbala-Corbis.jpg?w400 400w" sizes="calc(100%)" title="35-Karbala-Corbis.jpg" i-amphtml-layout="responsive"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display:block;padding-top:75.0000%;"></i-amphtml-sizer></amp-img> <div class="caption-wrap"> <figcaption class="caption"> A painting of the Battle of Karbala in 680AD, in present day Iraq, which is remembered by both Sunnis and Shias (Corbis) </figcaption> </div> </figure> <p>What makes Syria different is that there a Sunni majority is ruled by a Shia minority. The Alawites, the sect to which President Bashar al-Assad and much of his army officer elite belong, are Shia. That situation is the mirror opposite of Iraq under Saddam, where a Sunni strongman lorded it over a Shia majority - until the invasion of Iraq, when elections put the Shia in charge, insofar as anyone can be said to be running that chaotic country.</p> <p>The division between the two factions is older and deeper even than the tensions between Protestants and Catholics which bedevilled Europe for centuries. The two Christian denominations had a shared history for 1500 years. By contrast the rift between the two biggest Muslim factions goes right back to the beginning - and a row over who should succeed the Prophet Mohamed as leader of the emerging Islamic community when he died in the early 7th century.</p> <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--apester ad-wrapper--mobile js-mobile-placeholder--apester"></div> <p>In the last 10 years of his life Mohamed inflicted total defeat on the pagan tribes of Mecca and by doing so united the entire Arabian peninsula. Around 100,000 people had submitted to the rule of Mohamed and of Allah. Tribal alliances in Arabia in those days usually disintegrated on the death of the leader, or after the short-term military objectives had been met and the spoils divided. Often succession would pass to the leader' s son. But Mohamed had no son, only a daughter. And his inheritance was spiritual as well as political.</p> <p>The majority of his followers thought his closest associate, Abu Bakr, should take over. They became the Sunnis. 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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2000" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">1/40</span> 2000</h2> <div class="description">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (pictured here) forms an al-Qaeda splinter group in Iraq, al-Qa’eda in Iraq. Its brutality from the beginning alienates Iraqis and many al-Qaeda leaders.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg" layout="fill" alt="2006" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">2/40</span> 2006</h2> <div class="description">Al-Zarqawi is killed in a U.S. strike. Al-Zarqawi’s successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, announces the creation of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI). </div> <div class="copyright">Reuters</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2009" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">3/40</span> 2009</h2> <div class="description">Still al-Qaeda-linked ISI claims responsibility for suicide bombings that killed 155 in Baghdad, as well as attacks in August and October killing 240, as President Obama announces troop withdrawal from Iraq in March.</div> <div class="copyright">Getty Images</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2010" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">4/40</span> 2010</h2> <div class="description">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi becomes head of ISI, at lowest ebb of Islamist militancy in Iraq, which sees last U.S. combat brigade depart.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg" layout="fill" alt="2012" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">5/40</span> 2012</h2> <div class="description">In Syria, protests (pictured here starting in Daree) have morphed into what president Assad labelled a “real war” with emergence of a coalition of forces opposed to Assad’s regime. Syria group Jabhat al-Nusra are among rebel groups who refuse to join, denouncing it as a “conspiracy”. Bombings targeting Shia areas, killing more than 500 people, spark fears of new sectarian conflict. Sunni Muslims stage protests across country against what they see as increasingly marginalisation by Shia-led government.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2013" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">6/40</span> 2013</h2> <div class="description">Al-Baghdadi renames ISI as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or Isis, as the group absorbs Syrian al-Nusra, gaining a foothold in Syria. In response, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri (Bin Laden’s successor) concerned about Isis’ expansion orders that Isis be dissolved and ISI operations should be confined to Iraq. This order is rejected by al-Baghdadi. </div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - January" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">7/40</span> 2014 - January</h2> <div class="description">Isis fighters capture the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, giving them base to launch slew of attacks further south. </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">8/40</span> 2014 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis declares itself the Caliphate, calling itself Islamic State (IS). The group captures Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city; Tal Afar, just 93 miles from Syrian border; and the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. These advances sent shockwaves around the world. </div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">9/40</span> 2014 - June</h2> <div class="description">Around the same time Isis releases a video calling for western Muslims to join the Caliphate and fight, prompting new evaluations of extremists groups social media understanding.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">10/40</span> 2014 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis take Baiji oil fields in Iraq - giving them access to huge amounts of possible revenue.</div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - August" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">11/40</span> 2014 - August</h2> <div class="description">James Foley is executed by the group as concerns grow for second American prisoner, fellow reporter Steven Sotloff. </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - August" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">12/40</span> 2014 - August</h2> <div class="description">Obama authorises U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, helping to stall Isis’ along with action by Kurdish forces following the deaths of hundreds of Yazidi people on Mount Sinjar.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - September " srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">13/40</span> 2014 - September </h2> <div class="description">Isis release video showing Steven Sotloff’s murder prompting Western speculation his executioner is same man who killed Mr Foley. </div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - September" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">14/40</span> 2014 - September</h2> <div class="description">Obama tells us that America “will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country”</div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper potrait"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - September" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">15/40</span> 2014 - September</h2> <div class="description">Isis release a video appearing to show David Haines, who was captured by militants in Syria in 2013, wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in the desert while he reads a pre-prepared script. It later shows what appears to be the aid worker's body.</div> <div class="copyright">Rex</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - September " srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">16/40</span> 2014 - September </h2> <div class="description">Peshmerga fighters scrabble to hold positions in the Diyala province (a gateway to Baghdad) as Isis fighters continue to advance on Iraqi capital.</div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - October" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">17/40</span> 2014 - October</h2> <div class="description">Aid worker Alan Henning is killed. Self-imposed media blackout refuses to show images of him in final moments, instead focuses upon humanitarian care. </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - October" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">18/40</span> 2014 - October</h2> <div class="description">Isis raise their flag in Kobani, which had been strongly defended by Kurdish troops. The victory goes against hopeful western analysis Isis had overextended itself, while alienating much of the Muslim population through the murder of Henning. Victory causes fresh waves of Kurdish refugees arriving in Turkey.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2014 - November" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">19/40</span> 2014 - November</h2> <div class="description">American hostage, who embarced values of Islam, Peter Kassig and 14 Syrian soldiers are shown meeting the same fate as other captives. But intelligence agencies will be poring over the apparently significant discrepancies between this and previous films.</div> <div class="copyright">Seramedig.org.uk</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">20/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">Isis has released a video revealing the murder by burning to death of a Jordanian pilot held by the group since the end of December 2014. </div> <div class="copyright">Reuters</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">21/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">Isis militants have released videos which appear to show the beheading of Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">22/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">American aid worker, Kayla Mueller was the last American hostage known to be held by Isis. She died, according to her captors, in an airstrike by the Jordanian air force on the city of Raqqa in Syria, though US authorities disputed this.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">23/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">Isis militants have posted a gruesome video online in which they force 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages to kneel on a beach in Libya before beheading them. Egypt vowed to avenge the beheading and launched air strikes on Isis positions.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper potrait"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">24/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">The British Isis militant suspected of appearing in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages has been named in reports as Mohammed Emwazi from London.</div> <div class="copyright">Rex Features</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - March" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">25/40</span> 2015 - March</h2> <div class="description">Isis triple suicide attack has killed more than 100 worshippers and hundreds of others were injured after the group members targeted two mosques in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - April" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">26/40</span> 2015 - April</h2> <div class="description">Iraqi forces have claimed victory over Isis in battle for Tikrit and raised the flag in the city.</div> <div class="copyright">EPA/STR</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - April" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">27/40</span> 2015 - April</h2> <div class="description">Isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 35 people queuing to collect their wages and injured 100 more.</div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - April" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">28/40</span> 2015 - April</h2> <div class="description">Isis’ media arm released a 29-minute video purporting to show militants executing Ethiopian Christians captives. The footage bore the extremist group’s al-Furqan media logo and showed the destruction of churches and desecration of religious symbols. A masked fighter made a statement threatening Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a special tax.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">29/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis has been "incapacitated" by a spinal injuries sustained in a US air strike in Iraq. He is being treated in a hideout by two doctors from Isis’ stronghold of Mosul who are said to be "strong ideological supporters of the group".</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">30/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis has also claimed responsibility for killing 300 of Yazidi captives, including women, children and elderly people in Iraq </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">31/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis attack on Prophet Mohamed cartoon contest in Texas was its first action on US soil. Two gunmen were shot and killed after launching the attack at the exhibition. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi have been named as the attackers at the Curtis Culwell Centre arena in Garland.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper potrait"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">32/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis’s deputy leader, Abu Alaa Afri, a former physics teacher who was thought to have taken charge of the deadly terrorist group, has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">33/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">US special forces have killed a senior Isis leader named as Abu Sayyaf in an operation aiming to capture him and his wife in Syria.</div> <div class="copyright">Getty Images</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">34/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Iran-backed militias are sent to Ramadi by the Iraqi government to fight Isis militants who completed their capture of the city. Government soldiers and civilians were reportedly massacred by extremists as they took control and the army fled. Charred bodies were left littering the city streets as troops clung on to trucks speeding away from the city. Ramadi is the latest government stronghold to fall to the so-called Islamic State, despite air strikes by a US-led international coalition aiming to stop its advance in Iraq and Syria.</div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">35/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis rounded up civilians trapped in Palmyra and forced them to watch 20 people being executed in the historic city’s ancient amphitheatre. The Unesco World Heritage site was overrun by militants, threatening the future of 2,000 year-old monuments and ruins. Thousands of Palmyra’s residents fled but many are still living within the city walls, while the UN human rights office in Geneva said it had received reports of Syrian government forces preventing people from leaving until they retreated from the city.</div> <div class="copyright">Getty</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">36/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">A group of Isis-affiliated fighters have captured a key airport in central Libya. The militants took control of the al-Qardabiya airbase in Sirte after a local militia tasked with defending the facility withdrew from their positions. Affiliates of Isis, already control large parts of Sirte, the birthplace of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and a former stronghold of his supporters.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">37/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">The US Air Force has destroyed an Isis stronghold after an extremist let slip their location on social media. According the Air Force Times, General Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, said that Airmen at Hulburt Field, Florida, used images shared by jihadists to track the location of their headquarters before destroying it in an airstrike.</div> <div class="copyright">Reuters</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">38/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">Kurdish forces captured a key military base in a significant victory in Raqqa as well as town of Tell Abyad. YPG fighters, backed by US-led airstrikes and other rebels, consolidated their gains, when they seized the key town on the Syria-Turkey border. They are now just 30 miles to the north of Raqqa and have cut off a major supply route deep inside Isis-held territory.</div> <div class="copyright">Ahmet Silk/Getty</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">39/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis has released gruesome footage claiming to show the murder of more than a dozen men by drowning, decapitation and using a rocket-propelled grenade as it seeks to boost morale among its fanatical supporters.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg" layout="fill" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-fill i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="fill"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">40/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis has begun carrying out its threat to destroy structures in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, blowing up at least two monuments at the Unesco-protected site as Syrian government troops made advances on the Islamist’s positions.</div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> </amp-carousel> <amp-carousel class="mobile-only i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" layout="flex-item" id="gallery-carousel-3387496-1" type="slides" controls="" loop="" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2000" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/16/Abu-Musab-al-Zarqawi.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">1/40</span> 2000</h2> <div class="description">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (pictured here) forms an al-Qaeda splinter group in Iraq, al-Qa’eda in Iraq. Its brutality from the beginning alienates Iraqis and many al-Qaeda leaders.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg" layout="flex-item" alt="2006" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/iraq_reuters.jpeg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">2/40</span> 2006</h2> <div class="description">Al-Zarqawi is killed in a U.S. strike. Al-Zarqawi’s successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, announces the creation of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI). </div> <div class="copyright">Reuters</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2009" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/14/bomb-baghdad-getty.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">3/40</span> 2009</h2> <div class="description">Still al-Qaeda-linked ISI claims responsibility for suicide bombings that killed 155 in Baghdad, as well as attacks in August and October killing 240, as President Obama announces troop withdrawal from Iraq in March.</div> <div class="copyright">Getty Images</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2010" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/10/11/iraq-4.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">4/40</span> 2010</h2> <div class="description">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi becomes head of ISI, at lowest ebb of Islamist militancy in Iraq, which sees last U.S. combat brigade depart.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", 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https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/16/15/Pg-12-syria-ap.jpeg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">5/40</span> 2012</h2> <div class="description">In Syria, protests (pictured here starting in Daree) have morphed into what president Assad labelled a “real war” with emergence of a coalition of forces opposed to Assad’s regime. Syria group Jabhat al-Nusra are among rebel groups who refuse to join, denouncing it as a “conspiracy”. Bombings targeting Shia areas, killing more than 500 people, spark fears of new sectarian conflict. Sunni Muslims stage protests across country against what they see as increasingly marginalisation by Shia-led government.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2013" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/13/20/39-anbar-lions-afp-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">6/40</span> 2013</h2> <div class="description">Al-Baghdadi renames ISI as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or Isis, as the group absorbs Syrian al-Nusra, gaining a foothold in Syria. In response, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri (Bin Laden’s successor) concerned about Isis’ expansion orders that Isis be dissolved and ISI operations should be confined to Iraq. This order is rejected by al-Baghdadi. </div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - January" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/08/19/Iraq.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">7/40</span> 2014 - January</h2> <div class="description">Isis fighters capture the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, giving them base to launch slew of attacks further south. </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/18/09/iraq-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">8/40</span> 2014 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis declares itself the Caliphate, calling itself Islamic State (IS). The group captures Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city; Tal Afar, just 93 miles from Syrian border; and the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. 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June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/23/09/iraq-2v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">9/40</span> 2014 - June</h2> <div class="description">Around the same time Isis releases a video calling for western Muslims to join the Caliphate and fight, prompting new evaluations of extremists groups social media understanding.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/07/31/19/isis-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">10/40</span> 2014 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis take Baiji oil fields in Iraq - giving them access to huge amounts of possible revenue.</div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - August" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/27/00/25-James-Foley-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">11/40</span> 2014 - August</h2> <div class="description">James Foley is executed by the group as concerns grow for second American prisoner, fellow reporter Steven Sotloff. </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - August" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/08/11/13/world-in-pic-13.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">12/40</span> 2014 - August</h2> <div class="description">Obama authorises U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, helping to stall Isis’ along with action by Kurdish forces following the deaths of hundreds of Yazidi people on Mount Sinjar.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - September " srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/03/20/52-Sotloff-EPA-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">13/40</span> 2014 - September </h2> <div class="description">Isis release video showing Steven Sotloff’s murder prompting Western speculation his executioner is same man who killed Mr Foley. </div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - September" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/17/Obama.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">14/40</span> 2014 - September</h2> <div class="description">Obama tells us that America “will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country”</div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper potrait"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - September" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/15/17/david_haines_rex.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">15/40</span> 2014 - September</h2> <div class="description">Isis release a video appearing to show David Haines, who was captured by militants in Syria in 2013, wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in the desert while he reads a pre-prepared script. It later shows what appears to be the aid worker's body.</div> <div class="copyright">Rex</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - September " srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/23-Peshmerga-AFP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">16/40</span> 2014 - September </h2> <div class="description">Peshmerga fighters scrabble to hold positions in the Diyala province (a gateway to Baghdad) as Isis fighters continue to advance on Iraqi capital.</div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - October" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/alan-henning-v4.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">17/40</span> 2014 - October</h2> <div class="description">Aid worker Alan Henning is killed. Self-imposed media blackout refuses to show images of him in final moments, instead focuses upon humanitarian care. </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - October" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/07/15/kobani-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">18/40</span> 2014 - October</h2> <div class="description">Isis raise their flag in Kobani, which had been strongly defended by Kurdish troops. The victory goes against hopeful western analysis Isis had overextended itself, while alienating much of the Muslim population through the murder of Henning. Victory causes fresh waves of Kurdish refugees arriving in Turkey.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2014 - November" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/04/20/v2-29-PeterKassig.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">19/40</span> 2014 - November</h2> <div class="description">American hostage, who embarced values of Islam, Peter Kassig and 14 Syrian soldiers are shown meeting the same fate as other captives. But intelligence agencies will be poring over the apparently significant discrepancies between this and previous films.</div> <div class="copyright">Seramedig.org.uk</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/03/19/web-jordan-pilot-2-reuters.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">20/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">Isis has released a video revealing the murder by burning to death of a Jordanian pilot held by the group since the end of December 2014. </div> <div class="copyright">Reuters</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/01/23/10/v2hostages-2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">21/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">Isis militants have released videos which appear to show the beheading of Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/07/23/Kayla-Mueller-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">22/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">American aid worker, Kayla Mueller was the last American hostage known to be held by Isis. She died, according to her captors, in an airstrike by the Jordanian air force on the city of Raqqa in Syria, though US authorities disputed this.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/16/21/4-Coptic1-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">23/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">Isis militants have posted a gruesome video online in which they force 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages to kneel on a beach in Libya before beheading them. Egypt vowed to avenge the beheading and launched air strikes on Isis positions.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper potrait"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - February" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/02/07/emwazi.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">24/40</span> 2015 - February</h2> <div class="description">The British Isis militant suspected of appearing in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages has been named in reports as Mohammed Emwazi from London.</div> <div class="copyright">Rex Features</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - March" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/20/19/Yemen-bodies-AP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">25/40</span> 2015 - March</h2> <div class="description">Isis triple suicide attack has killed more than 100 worshippers and hundreds of others were injured after the group members targeted two mosques in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.</div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - April" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/01/11/tikrit2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">26/40</span> 2015 - April</h2> <div class="description">Iraqi forces have claimed victory over Isis in battle for Tikrit and raised the flag in the city.</div> <div class="copyright">EPA/STR</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - April" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/18/11/Jalalabad-attack.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">27/40</span> 2015 - April</h2> <div class="description">Isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 35 people queuing to collect their wages and injured 100 more.</div> <div class="copyright">EPA</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - April" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/19/14/isis-churches-4.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">28/40</span> 2015 - April</h2> <div class="description">Isis’ media arm released a 29-minute video purporting to show militants executing Ethiopian Christians captives. The footage bore the extremist group’s al-Furqan media logo and showed the destruction of churches and desecration of religious symbols. A masked fighter made a statement threatening Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a special tax.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/16/amman-protest-7.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">29/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis has been "incapacitated" by a spinal injuries sustained in a US air strike in Iraq. He is being treated in a hideout by two doctors from Isis’ stronghold of Mosul who are said to be "strong ideological supporters of the group".</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/03/14/yazidis-ap-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">30/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis has also claimed responsibility for killing 300 of Yazidi captives, including women, children and elderly people in Iraq </div> <div class="copyright">AP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/07/14/killers.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">31/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis attack on Prophet Mohamed cartoon contest in Texas was its first action on US soil. Two gunmen were shot and killed after launching the attack at the exhibition. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi have been named as the attackers at the Curtis Culwell Centre arena in Garland.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper potrait"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/24/10/Abu-Alaa-Afri.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">32/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis’s deputy leader, Abu Alaa Afri, a former physics teacher who was thought to have taken charge of the deadly terrorist group, has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/16/14/Ash-Carter.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">33/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">US special forces have killed a senior Isis leader named as Abu Sayyaf in an operation aiming to capture him and his wife in Syria.</div> <div class="copyright">Getty Images</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/18/19/4-Isis-Flag-AFP.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">34/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Iran-backed militias are sent to Ramadi by the Iraqi government to fight Isis militants who completed their capture of the city. Government soldiers and civilians were reportedly massacred by extremists as they took control and the army fled. Charred bodies were left littering the city streets as troops clung on to trucks speeding away from the city. Ramadi is the latest government stronghold to fall to the so-called Islamic State, despite air strikes by a US-led international coalition aiming to stop its advance in Iraq and Syria.</div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/27/23/v3-Roman-amphitheatre-of-Palmyra-Getty.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">35/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">Isis rounded up civilians trapped in Palmyra and forced them to watch 20 people being executed in the historic city’s ancient amphitheatre. The Unesco World Heritage site was overrun by militants, threatening the future of 2,000 year-old monuments and ruins. Thousands of Palmyra’s residents fled but many are still living within the city walls, while the UN human rights office in Geneva said it had received reports of Syrian government forces preventing people from leaving until they retreated from the city.</div> <div class="copyright">Getty</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - May" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/29/15/libyadawn.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">36/40</span> 2015 - May</h2> <div class="description">A group of Isis-affiliated fighters have captured a key airport in central Libya. The militants took control of the al-Qardabiya airbase in Sirte after a local militia tasked with defending the facility withdrew from their positions. Affiliates of Isis, already control large parts of Sirte, the birthplace of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and a former stronghold of his supporters.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide amp-ad-slide"> <amp-ad width="300" height="255" class="mobile-only ad-mobile i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" json="{"targeting":{ "tile":"partner1", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels":"shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19", "docFormat":"amp", "tg":"stream5", "article":"691546", "pagetype":"image", "topictags":"middleeast_conflict,islam" }}" style="width:300px;height:255px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/03/19/v2-web-isis-1-reuters-v2.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">37/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">The US Air Force has destroyed an Isis stronghold after an extremist let slip their location on social media. According the Air Force Times, General Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, said that Airmen at Hulburt Field, Florida, used images shared by jihadists to track the location of their headquarters before destroying it in an airstrike.</div> <div class="copyright">Reuters</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/23/08/Kurds-base.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">38/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">Kurdish forces captured a key military base in a significant victory in Raqqa as well as town of Tell Abyad. YPG fighters, backed by US-led airstrikes and other rebels, consolidated their gains, when they seized the key town on the Syria-Turkey border. They are now just 30 miles to the north of Raqqa and have cut off a major supply route deep inside Isis-held territory.</div> <div class="copyright">Ahmet Silk/Getty</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/30/11/v2-iraq-11.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">39/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis has released gruesome footage claiming to show the murder of more than a dozen men by drowning, decapitation and using a rocket-propelled grenade as it seeks to boost morale among its fanatical supporters.</div> </figcaption> </figure> <figure class="gallery-lightbox-slide"> <div class="img-wrapper landscape"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg" layout="flex-item" alt="2015 - June" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=736&height=490&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 700w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=530&height=353&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 500w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/06/17/16/isis-palmyra.jpg?width=330&height=220&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70 300w" class="i-amphtml-layout-flex-item i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="flex-item"> </amp-img> </div> <figcaption> <h2><span class="count">40/40</span> 2015 - June</h2> <div class="description">Isis has begun carrying out its threat to destroy structures in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, blowing up at least two monuments at the Unesco-protected site as Syrian government troops made advances on the Islamist’s positions.</div> <div class="copyright">AFP</div> </figcaption> </figure> </amp-carousel> </div> </amp-lightbox> </figure> <p>Shia is an abbreviation of Shiat Ali "the party of Ali". Intrigues and violence followed, with Mohamed's widow Aisha (who was also the daughter of Abu Bakr) leading troops against Ali. Eventually Ali was killed, as was his son Hussein, and persecution and martyrdom became ingrained in the Shia psyche. As the years passed rift hardened into schism. The seeds of civil war had been sown.</p> <p>The two sides agreed on the Quran but had different views on hadith, the traditions recorded by Mohamed's followers about what he had said and done in his life. Diverging traditions of ritual, law and practice soon emerged. A clerical hierarchy, topped by imams and ayatollahs, became crucial in Shi'ism. By contrast, Sunni Muslims felt no need of intermediaries in their relationship with God - an approach which has abetted the rise of extremist zealots like al-Qa'ida. The Sunnis became happy to depend upon the state, which their adherents mostly controlled.</p> <p>The chief Shia religious festival became Ashura when devotees would beat themselves to commemorate the death of the Prophet's grandson Hussein at the Battle of Karbala in 680. Various Shia sub-sects formed, including the fanatical Assassins, the Alawites in Syria and the Ismailis, whose leader is the Aga Khan. Some mystical sufi movements created a bridge between Sunni and Shia but hardline Sunnis regard the Shia practice of venerating saints and visiting shrines as heretical - which is why Sunni extremists bomb Shias on pilgrimage in places like Karbala in Iraq today.</p>  <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-ad height="258" width="300" class="desktop-hidden ad-center i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" json="{ "targeting":{ "tile": "mpu8", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels": ["shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19"], "docFormat": "amp", "article": "691546", "pagetype": "image", "topictags": ["middleeast_conflict,islam"] } }" layout="fixed" style="width:300px;height:258px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> </div> <aside class="inline-block inline-related align-left item-count-1 "> <h2 class="box-title">Read more</h2> <ul> <li> <div> <a href="/web/20200327215841/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-enemies-cross-the-front-lines-in-damascus-but-will-the-truce-hold-9139315.html" data-vars-item-name="related - /news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-enemies-cross-the-front-lines-in-damascus-but-will-the-truce-hold-9139315.html" data-vars-event-id="c29"> <amp-img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/18/31-Syria-Reuters.jpg?w230" width="204" height="135" layout="responsive" class="i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" i-amphtml-layout="responsive"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display:block;padding-top:66.1765%;"></i-amphtml-sizer></amp-img> </a> </div> <a href="/web/20200327215841/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-enemies-cross-the-front-lines-in-damascus-but-will-the-truce-hold-9139315.html" data-vars-item-name="related - /news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-enemies-cross-the-front-lines-in-damascus-but-will-the-truce-hold-9139315.html" data-vars-event-id="c29">Syria conflict: Enemies cross the front lines in Damascus. But will the truce hold?</a></li> </ul> </aside> <p>Yet for much of the 1,400 years since the death of the Prophet the majority of Sunni and Shia Muslims have not routinely allowed their theological differences to create hostility. Some Sunnis included ritual denunciations of Ali in their prayers, but in many times and places the two sects have co-existed peacefully.</p> <p>From time to time, however, violence has flared in which the Shia, in the main, have been brutally and even genocidally persecuted. In 1514 an Ottoman sultan ordered the massacre of 40,000 Shia. Mughal emperors in India between the 15th and 19th centuries routinely executed Shia scholars, burned their libraries and desecrated their sacred sites. Inter-communal violence has recurred in Pakistan.</p> <p>There have been periods and places of concord. In 1959 the most influential centre of Sunni scholarship, al-Azhar University in Cairo, admitted Shia jurisprudence to its curriculum. In Azerbaijan, where the Shias are in the majority, there are mixed mosques where both sects pray together. But early in the 20th century the Saudi royal family made discrimination against the Shia official and destroyed most of the Shia holy places. With the rise there of the Sunni fundamentalism known as Wahhabism, severe restrictions have been placed on Shia practice and its leaders jailed. Some Saudi scholars brand Shi'ism as a heresy "worse than Christianity or Judaism".</p>  <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-ad height="258" width="300" class="desktop-hidden ad-center i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" json="{ "targeting":{ "tile": "mpu8", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels": ["shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19"], "docFormat": "amp", "article": "691546", "pagetype": "image", "topictags": ["middleeast_conflict,islam"] } }" layout="fixed" style="width:300px;height:258px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> </div> <p>The fanatics of al-Qa'ida have been nurtured in this Wahhabi ideology. Some of them consider the Shia to be not merely heretics but apostates - and the punishment for apostasy, they say, is death.</p> <p>Over the years the division has been exploited by outsiders. British colonialists in Iraq in the 1920s used an elite of Sunni army officers to suppress a Shia rebellion, paving the way for Saddam's Sunni minority rule, in which Shia clerics were regularly executed. The legacy has been that most of the 6,000 killings over the past year in Baghdad are Sunni on Shia and vice-versa. Now this ruthless sectarianism has spread to Syria.</p> <p>Two major developments have triggered the escalation of tension between Sunni and Shia in recent years. The first was the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 when the rule of the pro-Western Shah was overthrown and replaced with a Shia theocracy with Ayatollah Khomeini at the head. Khomeini did his best to build good relations between Shia and Sunni inside Iran but other leaders, religious and secular, have since been more divisive. And Khomeini was from the outset adversarial to the Sunni aristocrats who led Saudi Arabia - calling them American lackeys as well as "unpopular and corrupt" dictators.</p>  <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-ad height="258" width="300" class="desktop-hidden ad-center i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" json="{ "targeting":{ "tile": "mpu8", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels": ["shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19"], "docFormat": "amp", "article": "691546", "pagetype": "image", "topictags": ["middleeast_conflict,islam"] } }" layout="fixed" style="width:300px;height:258px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> </div> <p> </p> <figure class="inline-media align-none" amp-fx="fade-in"> <amp-img on="tap:inline-image-gallery,inline-image-carousel.goToSlide(index=2)" tabindex="0" role="button" class="inline-image-gallery-trigger i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" data-gallery-length="3" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/36-Syrian-Reuters.jpg" width="2048" height="1536" layout="responsive" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/36-Syrian-Reuters.jpg?w660 1000w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/36-Syrian-Reuters.jpg?w800 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/36-Syrian-Reuters.jpg?w600 600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/02/19/20/36-Syrian-Reuters.jpg?w400 400w" sizes="calc(100%)" title="36-Syrian-Reuters.jpg" i-amphtml-layout="responsive"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display:block;padding-top:75.0000%;"></i-amphtml-sizer></amp-img> <div class="caption-wrap"> <figcaption class="caption"> Division: Forces of Syria's Alawite (Shia) regime (Reuters) </figcaption> </div> </figure> <p>The Iranians and Saudis have been fighting a proxy war in the Middle East ever since.</p> <p>Today in Iran, though Christian churches are tolerated, the million Sunnis in Tehran have no mosque of their own. There are no Sunnis in top government. Sunni businessmen have difficulty getting import and export licences. Huge numbers of ordinary Sunnis are unemployed. The situation in Saudi Arabia is the exact reverse, with Shia on the receiving end of the discrimination.</p> <p>From time to time there are attempts to insist that the tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia are not religious. In 2007 King Abdullah of the House of Saud met the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, with public hugs, spoke of a thaw in relations between the two regional powers - and condemned those who were trying to fuel the fire of strife between Sunni and Shia.</p> <p>But it changed nothing in the realpolitik. Each oil-producing giant sees the other as a huge obstacle to its national interests. Geopolitics is the reality but religious vision is the tribal badge it wears.</p>  <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-ad height="258" width="300" class="desktop-hidden ad-center i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" json="{ "targeting":{ "tile": "mpu8", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels": ["shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19"], "docFormat": "amp", "article": "691546", "pagetype": "image", "topictags": ["middleeast_conflict,islam"] } }" layout="fixed" style="width:300px;height:258px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> </div> <p>The invasion of Iraq instigated by George Bush and Tony Blair in 2003 was the second big factor in the deterioration of Sunni-Shia relations. Saddam Hussein led a Sunni elite which governed Iraq's Shia majority with a reign of state terror. The US had backed Saddam in Iraq's war with Iran throughout the 1980s, in which half a million troops died.</p> <p>But after 9/11 the US changed its mind about Saddam, overthrew him and brought democracy to Iraq. The resulting election placed in power leaders from the Shia majority who have excluded the Sunni minority - who have responded with the car bombs which are killing thousands in Baghdad and elsewhere. Al-Qa'ida jihadists have flooded into the country to join Sunni terrorists in attacking the Shia government. And now the polarised sectarian conflict has spilled over into Syria.</p> <p>When the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011 it began as a protest against the corruption, nepotism and human rights abuses of the Assad government. But within two years the armed uprising against the regime was transformed.</p>  <div class="ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile"> <amp-ad height="258" width="300" class="desktop-hidden ad-center i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" type="doubleclick" rtc-config="{"vendors":{"indexexchange":{"SITE_ID":"197232"}},"urls":[],"timeoutMillis":750}" data-slot="/71347885/_main_independent/in_news/in_world/in_middle_east/in_middle_east_article" json="{ "targeting":{ "tile": "mpu8", "share": "f936e1d9", "gs_channels": ["shadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist,shadow9hu7_safe_from_workdayh2,shadow9hu7_pos_loop_me,neg_omg_spotx,lner_block_v2,shadow9hu7_pos_lner_block_v3,shadow9hu7_pos_disney_mar20,shadow9hu7_safe_from_asda,skyonecurfew_block,shadow9hu7_pos_asda_2020,shadow9hu7_pos_o2_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_mar20,shadow9hu7_pos_nestle_blacklist_v2,huaweinova_mobkoi_blocklist,shadow9hu7_pos_ysl,lner_block,safe_aegis,shadow9hu7_safe_from_aegis_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_vitality_oct19,shadow9hu7_pos_saudi_aramco_feb20,nestle_bespoke,shadow9hu7_pos_keyword_blacklist_microsoft,facebook_block,shadow9hu7_pos_castroljuly,shadow9hu7_safe_from_mobkoi_facebook_keyword,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_02,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_01,shadow9hu7_pos_amazon_carnival_row_03,gv_terrorism,shadow9hu7_pos_microsoft_jan2020,shadow9hu7_pos_terrorism_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_dec19,shadow9hu7_pos_three_mobile_jan20,gs_politics,gv_death_injury,gv_military,safe_from_emirates_blacklist,gs_politics_misc,gv_safe_adult,gv_safe_arms,gv_safe_crime,gv_safe_download,gv_safe_drugs,gv_safe_hatespeech,gv_safe_obscenity,gv_safe_tobacco,pos_amazon_carnival_row_04,pos_animal_cruelty,pos_apple,pos_coronavirus2019_covid19,pos_google,pos_nestle_channel4dispatches_feb20,pos_santander_cycles,pos_society_lgbt,safe_from_facebook_blacklist,shadow9hu7_pos_inskin_safe,shadow9hu7_pos_british_airways_oct19"], "docFormat": "amp", "article": "691546", "pagetype": "image", "topictags": ["middleeast_conflict,islam"] } }" layout="fixed" style="width:300px;height:258px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed"> </amp-ad> </div> <p>Rebels motivated by political indignation, who received limited backing from Western governments, slowly became outnumbered by rebel groups with extreme Islamist motivation fighting to create what they call the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).</p> <p>These jihadists have come from across the Islamic world but they are backed by Saudi cash. More recently Shia militants from the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah have arrived to support the Alawite-led army of the Assad regime. Full-blown civil war is the result.</p> <p>What all this means is that Sunni and Shia are locked in conflict all across the Shia Crescent. As each side steps up its activities, the other feels more threatened and hardens its response in turn.</p> <p>Sunni-Shia tensions are increasing across the world as a result. They are on the rise in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Libya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Egypt, and even in London as issues of identity, rights, interests and enfranchisement find sectarian expression.</p> <p>The tensions are deep-rooted in wider economic and geopolitical concerns. 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height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}}  </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="replies-1"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}}  </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="replies-2"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}}  </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;""> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/comments}} </template> </amp-list> </div>  <div amp-access="loggedIn" amp-access-hide="" class="comments-list-container" [class]="visible ? 'comments-list-more' : 'comments-list-container'"> <amp-list id="comments-list" width="auto" height="150" layout="fixed-height" src="/web/20200327215841js_/https://www.independent.co.uk/article-comments/9139525" [src]="commentState.feedUrl + '?' + commentState.showAll + 'sort=' + commentState.sortQuery" credentials="include" binding="refresh" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed-height i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="height:150px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed-height"> <div class="placeholder-text" placeholder="">Loading comments...</div> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{^comments}} <div class="placeholder-text">There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts</div> {{/comments}} {{#comments}} <div class="comment card" data-comment-id="{{ID}}"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div>  <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt>" on="tap:replyOpenComment-{{ID}}.show, comments-list.changeToLayoutContainer(),body.toggleClass('class'='comments-list-open','force'=true)">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}',sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}} </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> <div id="replyOpenComment-{{ID}}" class="comment-util-reply" hidden=""> <form id="profileNicknameUpdateOpenReply" method="post" class="create-username" [class]="userState.hasNickname ? 'create-username hide-username' : 'create-username show-username'" action-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/submit" verify-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/verify" custom-validation-reporting="as-you-go" on="submit:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:true, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-error:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-success:profileNicknameUpdateOpenReply.hide, AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:true, userStored: event.response.profile }, userState: { nickname: event.response.profile.nickname, hasNickname: true }, nickname: event.response.profile.nickname });"> <div class="gigya-form"> <fieldset class="form-group-profile form-group"> <p>Create a commenting name to join the debate</p> <div class="create-username-group field-wrapper"> <input name="default.nickname" type="hidden" value=""> <input name="profile[nicknameCommenting]" required="" type="text" id="form-profile-username-open-reply" class="mdc-text-field__input form-create-username"> <button class="form-submit" type="submit" [text]="profileState.submitProcessing ? 'Saving...' : 'Submit'">Submit</button> </div> <div> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="valueMissing" validation-for="form-profile-username-open-reply">Please try again, the name must be unique</span> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="customError" validation-for="form-profile-username-open-reply"></span> </div> <div [class]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'form-notice form-notice-success active' : 'form-notice form-notice-success'" [text]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'Changes have been saved.' : ''"></div> </fieldset> </div> </form> <form id="reply-{{ID}}" method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-comment" on="submit-success:reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({ commentId: null, sourceId: null}), comments-list.refresh, load-more.refresh, open-comments-count.refresh; submit-error: AMP.setState({ commentId: null }); tap:replyOpenComment-{{ID}}.toggleClass('class' = 'open-compose', 'force' = true)"> <fieldset> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="parentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="streamURL" type="hidden" value="/news/world/middle-east/the-vicious-schism-between-sunni-and-shia-has-been-poisoning-islam-for-1400-years-and-its-getting-9139525.html"> <input name="replyTo" type="hidden" value="{{sender.name}}"> <input name="isStaff" type="hidden" value="{{sender.isStaff}}"> <input name="body" type="hidden" value="{{commentText}}"> <textarea class="comment-field logged-in" name="comment" placeholder="Write a reply..." [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" required=""></textarea> <div class="ctrls"> <button type="button" on="tap:replyOpenComment-{{ID}}.hide, reply-{{ID}}.clear, AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null, replyTo: null})" role="button" class="btn-secondary reply-close">Cancel</button> <button type="submit" class="btn-primary reply-close pre-submit-btn" [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname">Post</button> <button submitting="" class="btn"><template type="amp-mustache"><span class="btn-loader"></span></template></button> </div> </fieldset> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="replies-1"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card" data-comment-id="{{ID}}"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt>" on="tap:replyOpenComment-{{ID}}.show, comments-list.changeToLayoutContainer(),body.toggleClass('class'='comments-list-open','force'=true)">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}',sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}} </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> <div id="replyOpenComment-{{ID}}" class="comment-util-reply" hidden=""> <form id="profileNicknameUpdateOpenReply-1" method="post" class="create-username" [class]="userState.hasNickname ? 'create-username hide-username' : 'create-username show-username'" action-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/submit" verify-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/verify" custom-validation-reporting="as-you-go" on="submit:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:true, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-error:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-success:profileNicknameUpdateOpenReply-1.hide,AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:true, userStored: event.response.profile }, userState: { nickname: event.response.profile.nickname, hasNickname: true }, nickname: event.response.profile.nickname });"> <div class="gigya-form"> <fieldset class="form-group-profile form-group"> <p>Create a commenting name to join the debate</p> <div class="create-username-group field-wrapper"> <input name="default.nickname" type="hidden" value=""> <input name="profile[nicknameCommenting]" required="" type="text" id="form-profile-username-open-reply-1" class="mdc-text-field__input form-create-username"> <button class="form-submit" type="submit" [text]="profileState.submitProcessing ? 'Saving...' : 'Submit'">Submit</button> </div> <div> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="valueMissing" validation-for="form-profile-username-open-reply-1">Please try again, the name must be unique</span> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="customError" validation-for="form-profile-username-open-reply-1"></span> </div> <div [class]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'form-notice form-notice-success active' : 'form-notice form-notice-success'" [text]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'Changes have been saved.' : ''"></div> </fieldset> </div> </form> <form id="reply-{{ID}}" method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-comment" on="submit-success:reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({ commentId: null, sourceId: null}), comments-list.refresh, open-comments-count.refresh; submit-error: AMP.setState({ commentId: null }); tap:replyOpenComment-{{ID}}.toggleClass('class' = 'open-compose', 'force' = true)"> <fieldset> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="parentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="streamURL" type="hidden" value="/news/world/middle-east/the-vicious-schism-between-sunni-and-shia-has-been-poisoning-islam-for-1400-years-and-its-getting-9139525.html"> <input name="replyTo" type="hidden" value="{{sender.name}}"> <input name="isStaff" type="hidden" value="{{sender.isStaff}}"> <input name="body" type="hidden" value="{{commentText}}"> <textarea class="comment-field logged-in" name="comment" placeholder="Write a reply..." [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" required=""></textarea> <div class="ctrls"> <button type="button" on="tap:replyOpenComment-{{ID}}.hide, reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null, replyTo: null})" role="button" class="btn-secondary reply-close">Cancel</button> <button type="submit" [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" class="btn-primary reply-close pre-submit-btn">Post</button> <button submitting="" class="btn"><template type="amp-mustache"><span class="btn-loader"></span></template></button> </div> </fieldset> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="replies-2"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card" data-comment-id="{{ID}}"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}',sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}} </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/comments}} </template> </amp-list> </div> <div class="load-more-btn"> <amp-list id="load-more" layout="fixed-height" height="41" width="auto" src="/web/20200327215841js_/https://www.independent.co.uk/article-comments/comments-count/9139525" items="commentCountArr" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed-height i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="height:41px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed-height"> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{#showMore}} <button [disabled]="commentState.showAll == 'all&'" class="comment-btn" on="tap:AMP.setState({commentState:{ showAll: 'all&'},visible: !visible}),comments-list-guest.changeToLayoutContainer(),comments-list.changeToLayoutContainer()">Read more</button> {{/showMore}} </template> </amp-list> </div> </div> <div role="tab" class="tabButton" option="minds" selected=""> Minds Comments </div> <div role="tabpanel" class="tabContent"> <div class="comments-compose"> <div amp-access="NOT subscriber" amp-access-hide=""> <a class="logged-out-input comment-prompt-premium" role="button">Join the discussion</a> </div> <div amp-access="subscriber" amp-access-hide=""> <button on="tap:gigyaComments.toggleClass('class' = 'open-compose')" role="button" class="icon-cross"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M16.8 14L28 25.2 25.2 28 14 16.8 2.9 28 0 25.2 11.2 14 0 2.8 2.9 0 14 11.2 25.2 0 28 2.8 16.8 14z"></path></svg> </button> <amp-accordion disable-session-states="" animate="" class="i-amphtml-layout-container" i-amphtml-layout="container"> <section> <h5 class="guideline-notice">Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our <span class="guideline-link">Community Guidelines.</span></h5> <div class="guideline-content"> <ul> <li>You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully</li> <li>Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable</li> <li>Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties</li> <li>We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification</li> </ul> <p>You can find our Community Guidelines in full <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200327215841/https://www.independent.co.uk/service/community-guidelines-9487166.html">here.</a></p> </div> </section> </amp-accordion> <template amp-access-template="" type="amp-mustache"> {{^nickname}} <form method="post" [hidden]="nickname" id="profileNicknameUpdateMinds" class="create-username" action-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/submit" verify-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/verify" custom-validation-reporting="as-you-go" on="submit:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:true, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-error:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-success:profileNicknameUpdateMinds.hide,AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:true, userStored: event.response.profile }, userState: { nickname: event.response.profile.nickname, hasNickname: true }, nickname: event.response.profile.nickname });"> <div class="gigya-form"> <fieldset class="form-group-profile form-group"> <p>Create a commenting name to join the debate</p> <div class="create-username-group field-wrapper"> <input name="default.nickname" type="hidden" value=""> <input name="profile[nicknameCommenting]" required="" type="text" id="form-profile-username1" class="mdc-text-field__input form-create-username"> <button class="form-submit" type="submit" [text]="profileState.submitProcessing ? 'Saving...' : 'Submit'">Submit</button> </div> <div> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="valueMissing" validation-for="form-profile-username1">Please try again, the name must be unique</span> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="customError" validation-for="form-profile-username1"></span> </div> <div [class]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'form-notice form-notice-success active' : 'form-notice form-notice-success'" [text]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'Changes have been saved.' : ''"></div> </fieldset> </div> </form> {{/nickname}} </template> <form id="post-comment-form-minds" class="compose-data" method="post" action-xhr="/gigya-comment" verify-xhr="/internal-api/profile-update/verify" target="_blank" on="submit-success: comments-list-premium.refresh, sort-comments-count-premium.refresh, minds-comments-count.refresh, load-more-premium.refresh, post-comment-form-minds.clear, AMP.setState({userState: {hasNickname: true}}); tap:gigyaComments.toggleClass('class' = 'open-compose', 'force' = true)" custom-validation-reporting="as-you-go"> <fieldset> <textarea class="comment-field logged-in" name="comment" placeholder="Join the discussion..." [placeholder]="userState.hasNickname ? 'Hi ' + userState.nickname + ', join the discussion...' : 'Join the discussion...'" [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" required=""></textarea> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="9139525_p"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="streamTitle" type="hidden" value="The vicious schism between Sunni and Shia has been poisoning Islam for 1,400 years - and it's getting worse"> <input name="streamURL" type="hidden" value="/news/world/middle-east/the-vicious-schism-between-sunni-and-shia-has-been-poisoning-islam-for-1400-years-and-its-getting-9139525.html"> <div class="compose-input">    <button type="submit" [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" class="btn comment-submit btn-primary pre-submit-btn" on="tap:post-comment-form.submit">Post</button> <button submitting="" class="btn comment-submit btn-primary"><template type="amp-mustache"><span class="btn-loader"></span></template></button> </div> </fieldset> </form> </div> </div> <section class="sort-comments"> <amp-list id="sort-comments-count-premium" reset-on-refresh="always" layout="fixed-height" height="45" width="auto" src="/web/20200327215841js_/https://www.independent.co.uk/article-comments/comments-count/9139525" items="commentCountArr" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed-height i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="height:45px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed-height"> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{#moreThanOne_p}} <ul> <li tabindex="1" role="button" class="active" on="tap:AMP.setState({commentState: {sortQuery: 'dateDesc'}})" [class]="(commentState.sortQuery.indexOf('dateDesc') > -1) ? 'active' : ''"> Newest first</li> <li tabindex="2" role="button" on="tap:AMP.setState({commentState: {sortQuery: 'dateAsc'}})" [class]="(commentState.sortQuery.indexOf('dateAsc') > -1) ? 'active' : ''"> Oldest first</li> <li tabindex="3" role="button" on="tap:AMP.setState({commentState: {sortQuery: 'votesDesc'}})" [class]="(commentState.sortQuery.indexOf('votesDesc') > -1) ? 'active' : ''"> Most liked</li> </ul> {{/moreThanOne_p}} </template> </amp-list> </section>  <div amp-access="NOT subscriber" class="comments-list-container" [class]="visiblePremium ? 'comments-list-more' : 'comments-list-container'"> <amp-list id="comments-list-premium-guest" width="auto" height="40" layout="fixed-height" src="/web/20200327215841js_/https://www.independent.co.uk/article-comments/9139525_p" [src]="commentState.feedUrl_p + '?' + commentState.showAll_p + 'sort=' + commentState.sortQuery" credentials="include" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed-height i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="height:40px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed-height"> <div class="placeholder-text" placeholder="">Loading comments...</div> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{^comments}} <div class="placeholder-text">There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts</div> {{/comments}} {{#comments}} <div class="comment card" data-comment-id="{{ID}}"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div>  <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt-premium">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}}  </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="replies-1"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt-premium">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}}  </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="replies-2"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}}  </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-error:sidebar.open;"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') > -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/comments}} </template> </amp-list> </div>  <div amp-access="subscriber" amp-access-hide="" [class]="visiblePremium ? 'comments-list-more' : 'comments-list-container'" class="comments-list-container"> <amp-list id="comments-list-premium" width="auto" height="40" layout="fixed-height" src="/web/20200327215841js_/https://www.independent.co.uk/article-comments/9139525_p" [src]="commentState.feedUrl_p + '?' + commentState.showAll_p + 'sort=' + commentState.sortQuery" credentials="include" binding="refresh" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed-height i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="height:40px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed-height"> <div class="placeholder-text" placeholder="">Loading comments...</div> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{^comments}} <div class="placeholder-text">There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts</div> {{/comments}} {{#comments}} <div class="comment card" data-comment-id="{{ID}}"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt-premium>" on="tap:replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}.show,comments-list-premium.changeToLayoutContainer(),body.toggleClass('class'='comments-list-open','force'=true)">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}',sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}} </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list-premium.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list-premium.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> <div id="replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}" class="comment-util-reply" hidden=""> <form id="profileNicknameUpdateReplyMinds-1" method="post" class="create-username" [class]="userState.hasNickname ? 'create-username hide-username' : 'create-username show-username'" action-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/submit" verify-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/verify" custom-validation-reporting="as-you-go" on="submit:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:true, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-error:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-success:profileNicknameUpdateReplyMinds-1.hide,AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:true, userStored: event.response.profile }, userState: { nickname: event.response.profile.nickname, hasNickname: true }, nickname: event.response.profile.nickname });"> <div class="gigya-form"> <fieldset class="form-group-profile form-group"> <p>Create a commenting name to join the debate</p> <div class="create-username-group field-wrapper"> <input name="default.nickname" type="hidden" value=""> <input name="profile[nicknameCommenting]" required="" type="text" id="form-profile-username2" class="mdc-text-field__input form-create-username"> <button class="form-submit" type="submit" [text]="profileState.submitProcessing ? 'Saving...' : 'Submit'">Submit</button> </div> <div> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="valueMissing" validation-for="form-profile-username2">Please try again, the name must be unique</span> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="customError" validation-for="form-profile-username2"></span> </div> <div [class]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'form-notice form-notice-success active' : 'form-notice form-notice-success'" [text]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'Changes have been saved.' : ''"></div> </fieldset> </div> </form> <form id="subscription-reply-{{ID}}" method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-comment" on="submit-success:subscription-reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({ commentId: null, sourceId: null}), comments-list-premium.refresh, load-more-premium.refresh, minds-comments-count.refresh; submit-error: AMP.setState({ commentId: null }); tap:replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}.toggleClass('class' = 'open-compose', 'force' = true)"> <fieldset> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="parentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="streamURL" type="hidden" value="/news/world/middle-east/the-vicious-schism-between-sunni-and-shia-has-been-poisoning-islam-for-1400-years-and-its-getting-9139525.html"> <input name="replyTo" type="hidden" value="{{sender.name}}"> <input name="isStaff" type="hidden" value="{{sender.isStaff}}"> <input name="body" type="hidden" value="{{commentText}}"> <textarea class="comment-field logged-in" name="comment" placeholder="Write a reply..." [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" required=""></textarea> <div class="ctrls"> <button type="button" on="tap:replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}.hide, subscription-reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null, replyTo: null})" role="button" class="btn-secondary reply-close-premium">Cancel</button> <button submitting="" class="btn btn-primary"><template type="amp-mustache"><span class="btn-loader"></span></template></button> <button type="submit" class="btn-primary reply-close-premium pre-submit-btn" [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname">Post</button> </div> </fieldset> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="replies-1"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> <a class="reply-link comment-prompt-premium>" on="tap:replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}.show,comments-list-premium.changeToLayoutContainer(),body.toggleClass('class'='comments-list-open','force'=true)">Reply</a> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}',sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}} </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list-premium.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list-premium.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> <div id="replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}" class="comment-util-reply" hidden=""> <form id="profileNicknameUpdateReplyMinds-2" method="post" class="create-username" [class]="userState.hasNickname ? 'create-username hide-username' : 'create-username show-username'" action-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/submit" verify-xhr="/internal-api/nickname-update/verify" custom-validation-reporting="as-you-go" on="submit:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:true, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-error:AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:false } }); submit-success:profileNicknameUpdateReplyMinds-2.hide,AMP.setState({ profileState: { submitProcessing:false, messageDisplay:true, userStored: event.response.profile }, userState: { nickname: event.response.profile.nickname, hasNickname: true }, nickname: event.response.profile.nickname });"> <div class="gigya-form"> <fieldset class="form-group-profile form-group"> <p>Create a commenting name to join the debate</p> <div class="create-username-group field-wrapper"> <input name="default.nickname" type="hidden" value=""> <input name="profile[nicknameCommenting]" required="" type="text" id="form-profile-username2" class="mdc-text-field__input form-create-username"> <button class="form-submit" type="submit" [text]="profileState.submitProcessing ? 'Saving...' : 'Submit'">Submit</button> </div> <div> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="valueMissing" validation-for="form-profile-username2">Please try again, the name must be unique</span> <span class="error-text" visible-when-invalid="customError" validation-for="form-profile-username2"></span> </div> <div [class]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'form-notice form-notice-success active' : 'form-notice form-notice-success'" [text]="profileState.messageDisplay ? 'Changes have been saved.' : ''"></div> </fieldset> </div> </form> <form id="subscription-reply-{{ID}}" method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-comment" on="submit-success:subscription-reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({ commentId: null, sourceId: null}), comments-list-premium.refresh, minds-comments-count.refresh; submit-error: AMP.setState({ commentId: null }); tap:replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}.toggleClass('class' = 'open-compose', 'force' = true)"> <fieldset> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="parentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="streamURL" type="hidden" value="/news/world/middle-east/the-vicious-schism-between-sunni-and-shia-has-been-poisoning-islam-for-1400-years-and-its-getting-9139525.html"> <input name="replyTo" type="hidden" value="{{sender.name}}"> <input name="isStaff" type="hidden" value="{{sender.isStaff}}"> <input name="body" type="hidden" value="{{commentText}}"> <textarea class="comment-field logged-in" name="comment" placeholder="Write a reply..." [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname" required=""></textarea> <div class="ctrls"> <button type="button" on="tap:replySubscribeComment-{{ID}}.hide, subscription-reply-{{ID}}.clear,AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null, replyTo: null})" role="button" class="btn-secondary reply-close-premium">Cancel</button> <button submitting="" class="btn btn-primary"><template type="amp-mustache"><span class="btn-loader"></span></template></button> <button type="submit" class="btn-primary reply-close-premium pre-submit-btn" [disabled]="!userState.hasNickname">Post</button> </div> </fieldset> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="replies-2"> {{#replies}} <div class="comment card"> <div class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-meta {{#sender.isStaff}}staff{{/sender.isStaff}}"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="user">{{sender.name}}</span> <span class="date"> <amp-timeago class="comment-timeago" layout="fixed-height" height="20" datetime="{{dateTime}}" locale="en">{{dateTime}}</amp-timeago> </span> </div> <div class="comment-text">{{{commentText}}}</div> <div class="comment-util"> <div class="comment-util-links"> {{#sender.isSelf}} <a class="secondary-link" on="tap:delete-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}',sourceId:'{{streamId}}'})">Delete</a> {{/sender.isSelf}} </div> <div class="comment-util-icons"> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list-premium.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="pos"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M20,7 L13.69,7 L14.64,2.43 L14.67,2.11 C14.67,1.7 14.5,1.32 14.23,1.05 L13.17,0 L6.59,6.59 C6.22,6.95 6,7.45 6,8 L6,18 C6,19.1 6.9,20 8,20 L17,20 C17.83,20 18.54,19.5 18.84,18.78 L21.86,11.73 C21.95,11.5 22,11.26 22,11 L22,9 C22,7.9 21.1,7 20,7 Z M20,11 L17,18 L8,18 L8,8 L12.34,3.66 L11.23,9 L20,9 L20,11 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="0" y="8" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg></button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{posVotes}}</span> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:comments-list-premium.refresh;submit-error:sidebar.open"> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="{{streamId}}"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="{{ID}}"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="neg"> <button type="submit" class="vote-icon"><svg width="22px" height="24px" viewbox="0 -4 22 24" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M14,0 L5,0 C4.17,0 3.46,0.5 3.16,1.22 L0.14,8.27 C0.05,8.5 0,8.74 0,9 L0,11 C0,12.1 0.9,13 2,13 L8.31,13 L7.36,17.57 L7.33,17.89 C7.33,18.3 7.5,18.68 7.77,18.95 L8.83,20 L15.41,13.41 C15.78,13.05 16,12.55 16,12 L16,2 C16,0.9 15.1,0 14,0 Z M14,12 L9.66,16.34 L10.77,11 L2,11 L2,9 L5,2 L14,2 L14,12 Z" id="Shape"></path> <rect id="Rectangle-path" x="18" y="0" width="4" height="12"></rect> </svg> </button> </form> <span class="vote-count">{{negVotes}}</span> <a title="Flag" class="" on="tap:flag-lightbox,AMP.setState({commentId:'{{ID}}', sourceId: '{{streamId}}'})" hidden="" [hidden]="!(commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1)"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> <a title="Flag" class="vote-flagged" hidden="" [hidden]="commentState.flaggedComments.indexOf('{{ID}}') == -1"> <svg width="16px" height="24px" viewbox="0 0 16 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M9.6,2.11764706 L8.53333333,0 L0,0 L0,18 L2.13333333,18 L2.13333333,10.5882353 L7.46666667,10.5882353 L8.53333333,12.7058824 L16,12.7058824 L16,2.11764706 L9.6,2.11764706 Z M14,10 L9.63636364,10 L8.54545455,8 L2,8 L2,2 L7.45454545,2 L8.54545455,4 L14,4 L14,10 Z"></path> </svg>  </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/replies}} </div> </div> {{/comments}} </template> </amp-list> </div> <div class="load-more-btn"> <amp-list id="load-more-premium" layout="fixed-height" height="41" width="auto" src="/web/20200327215841js_/https://www.independent.co.uk/article-comments/comments-count/9139525" items="commentCountArr" class="i-amphtml-layout-fixed-height i-amphtml-layout-size-defined" style="height:41px;" i-amphtml-layout="fixed-height"> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{#showMore_p}} <button [disabled]="commentState.showAll_p == 'all&'" class="comment-btn" on="tap:AMP.setState({commentState:{ showAll_p: 'all&' },visiblePremium: !visiblePremium}),comments-list-premium-guest.changeToLayoutContainer(), comments-list-premium.changeToLayoutContainer()">Read more</button> {{/showMore_p}} </template> </amp-list> </div> </div> </amp-selector> <amp-lightbox id="subscribe-lightbox" class="lightbox-wrapper util-lightbox i-amphtml-layout-nodisplay" layout="nodisplay" hidden="hidden" i-amphtml-layout="nodisplay"> <div class="lightbox"> <button on="tap:subscribe-lightbox.close" role="button" class="icon-cross"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M16.8 14L28 25.2 25.2 28 14 16.8 2.9 28 0 25.2 11.2 14 0 2.8 2.9 0 14 11.2 25.2 0 28 2.8 16.8 14z"></path></svg> </button> <h3>Follow comments</h3> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-subscription" on="submit-success:subscription.hide"> <fieldset id="subscription"> <p>Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.</p> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="" [value]="sourceId"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <div class="input-field ctrls"> <input name="email" type="email"> <button type="submit">Subscribe</button> </div> </fieldset> <div submit-success=""> <template type="amp-mustache"> Thanks for subscribing! </template> </div> <div submit-error=""> <template type="amp-mustache"> {{errorMessage}} </template> </div> </form> </div> </amp-lightbox> <amp-lightbox id="vote-lightbox" class="lightbox-wrapper util-lightbox i-amphtml-layout-nodisplay" layout="nodisplay" hidden="hidden" i-amphtml-layout="nodisplay"> <div class="lightbox"> <button on="tap:vote-lightbox.close, AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null})" role="button" class="icon-cross"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M16.8 14L28 25.2 25.2 28 14 16.8 2.9 28 0 25.2 11.2 14 0 2.8 2.9 0 14 11.2 25.2 0 28 2.8 16.8 14z"></path></svg> </button> <h3>Vote</h3> <form method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-vote" on="submit-success:vote-lightbox.close, comments-list.refresh, comments-list-premium.refresh;"> <fieldset id="vote"> <p>Are you sure you want to submit this vote?</p> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="" [value]="sourceId"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="Comments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="" [value]="commentId"> <input name="vote" type="hidden" value="" [value]="vote"> <div class="ctrls"> <button type="submit">Submit vote</button> <button type="button" on="tap:vote-lightbox.close, AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null})" role="button">Cancel</button> </div> </fieldset> <div submit-error=""> <template type="amp-mustache"> You must be logged in to vote. </template> </div> </form> </div> </amp-lightbox> <amp-lightbox id="flag-lightbox" class="lightbox-wrapper util-lightbox i-amphtml-layout-nodisplay" layout="nodisplay" hidden="hidden" i-amphtml-layout="nodisplay"> <div class="lightbox"> <button on="tap:flag-lightbox.close,flag.clear,AMP.setState({commentId: null, sourceId: null}),flag-fieldset.show,flag-success-msg.hide" role="button" class="icon-cross"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M16.8 14L28 25.2 25.2 28 14 16.8 2.9 28 0 25.2 11.2 14 0 2.8 2.9 0 14 11.2 25.2 0 28 2.8 16.8 14z"></path></svg> </button> <h3>Report Comment</h3> <form id="flag" method="post" target="_top" action-xhr="/gigya-flag" on="tap:flag-fieldset.hide,flag-success-msg.show,AMP.setState({ commentState:{ flaggedComments: commentState.flaggedComments.concat(commentId)}});"> <fieldset id="flag-fieldset"> <p>Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?</p> <input name="streamID" type="hidden" value="" [value]="sourceId"> <input name="categoryID" type="hidden" value="ArticleComments"> <input name="commentID" type="hidden" value="" [value]="commentId"> <div class="ctrls"> <button class="btn-secondary" type="button" 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