DieHardBrownsFan Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=24612 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrownsfan Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Because the formal name of Daesh when they became front page news was Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which is the old term used for the Syria region this area would include the regions of the Levant(as shown on the map), hence why they are called ISIL, though some officials have started to change the name to Daesh http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry-uses-arab-name-daesh-refer-islamic-state_810981.html Though now I think they just want to be called Islamic State. "The historic geographic region of Syria or Greater Syria (often called Syria-Palestine or the Levant in modern literature, and Sham [ʃaːm] in traditional Arabic and Islamic literature) is usually defined as an area to the East of the Mediterranean Sea, West of the Euphrates River, North of the Arabian Desert and South of the Taurus Mountains.[1] The classical Arabic name for Syria is Sham (Arabic: الشام ash-Shām or al-Shām, also Cham under French influence). It roughly corresponds to the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_%28region%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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