In 2015, ISIS announced that it had accepted the loyalty of a new branch in the Khorasan region. ISIS appealed to a younger generation of fighters, in part by promising immediate glory and rewards for those willing to fight its enemies. That breakaway faction, called the Islamic State, or ISIS, was savvier about social media than Al Qaeda, and began specializing in a cinematic approach to brutality. At its peak, the territory was the size of Britain. Years later, a branch of Al Qaeda broke away and established a so-called caliphate, an Islamic theocracy, in large parts of Iraq and Syria.
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