Many people around the world may not disagree that Daesh poses a threat to our shared security and stability. At least a coalition of 65 countries, under the leadership of the US, are fighting against them, and several other …show more content…
It is one of the most complicated, dangerous and puzzling armed groups of the contemporary history. The group has killed thousands of people, destroyed cities and controls territories in several countries and spread fear around the world. Fighting this group costs the global community billions of dollars and thousands of lives, but after more than a decade, we still don’t know who they are. Various institutions, states, and individuals have tried to identify and introduce Daesh, but yet there is not a consent about their common name.
This group is known by several names including Al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham (Daesh) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in English is considered to be the original name of the group. But it is also known as, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State (IS), The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and even Islamic State Group. Name matters for everything and everyone. The world community has difficulty to find a common name for this common