caliphate

How to use caliphate in a sentence

• The goal was to sweep out dictators, which would then bring Islamist movements to power that would rule the Muslim world like the caliphate of old.

  The Islamic world has changed over the past 20 years. The Taliban is about to feel it. | Fareed Zakaria | September 9, 2021 | Washington Post

• In 2014, when President Obama chose to stop ISIS in its tracks and then later roll back its caliphate, American allies in Iraq still controlled most of the nation.

  American Leaders Made Defeat in Afghanistan Inevitable | David French | August 16, 2021 | Time

• Meanwhile, the influence of jihadist groups mushroomed in the chaos, with ISIS rising to control an area the size of Great Britain until the capital of its self-proclaimed caliphate fell in 2017.

  Syrian Medics Lay Out the Devastating Scale of Attacks on Healthcare Facilities Over 10 Years of War | Joseph Hincks | March 3, 2021 | Time

• ISIS might have physically lost its so-called caliphate following a series of pre-pandemic military reverses, but the United Nations warns that the group still has 10,000 active fighters in Syria and Iraq and that it is regrouping.

  Butterfly Effect: Pandemic Shrouds Terrorist Activities | Charu Kasturi | September 3, 2020 | Ozy

• The ISIS spokesman claims his so-called caliphate is the victim of the West, not the other way round.

  Lone Wolves, Terrorist Runts, and the Stray Dogs of ISIS | Jacob Siegel | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST