(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State supporters posted online photos showing IS fighters celebrating their newly-formed mandate east Syria.
Al-Furat (Euphrates) state includes Syrian border city of al-Bukamal and its neighbor Iraqi city of Qa’im.
By announcing of the new state, pro-Islamic State activists said the group wanted to break Sykes–Picot agreement 1916, which effectively divided the Arab provinces into areas of future British and French control or influence.
The extremist group has taken over much of northern and eastern Syria as well as western and northern Iraq. The group has declared a self-styled caliphate in territory it controls along the Iraqi-Syrian border, imposing a harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
Meanwhile, Islamist armed Islamist
groups have become the most powerful force in the three-year-old uprising
against Bashar al-Assad, who has long portrayed himself as the defender of a
secular order in Syria as the death toll exceeded 200,000. (With agencies)
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