{"id":20207,"date":"2017-02-21T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20207"},"modified":"2017-02-21T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:30:24","slug":"geography-social-studies-isis-or-isil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-social-studies-isis-or-isil\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography, Social Studies:  ISIS or ISIL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor explains two names for the Islamic State, commonly called ISIS.<\/h1>\n<p>ISIS and ISIL are two names for the same group.  Both are acronyms:<\/p>\n<p>ISIS:  Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>ISIL:  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.<\/p>\n<p>As I explain in my <a href=\"?p=19963\">post from February 4,<\/a> the Levant refers to the countries along the Mediterranean&#8217;s eastern shore:  Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS, or ISIL, presently holds territory in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, ISIS, or ISIL, is sometimes called simply IS, for Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/01\/20\/isis-vs-isil-vs-islamic-state-the-political-importance-of-a-much-debated-acronym-2\/?utm_term=.e09871fbf6ad\">www.washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/interactive\/2016\/08\/iraq-war-map-controls-160830115440480.html\">www.aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-37702442\">www.bbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor explains two names for the Islamic State, commonly called ISIS. ISIS and ISIL are two names for the same group. Both are acronyms: ISIS: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIL: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-social-studies-isis-or-isil\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography, Social Studies:  ISIS or ISIL?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20207"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20223,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207\/revisions\/20223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}