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Pentagon: Out with 'ISIL,' in with 'ISIS'
Published March 16, 2017
The change of U.S. administrations has produced a change of terminology in the war against the Islamic State group.
Out goes the name preferred by the Obama administration: the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
In comes the name favored by President Donald Trump: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
Why?
A Feb. 13 memo from the office of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the switch to "ISIS" makes the Pentagon "consistent with" Trump's language in a Jan. 28 directive in which he called for a new plan to defeat the extremist group.
The term "Levant" that Obama preferred refers to a region larger than today's Iraq and Syria, including Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan.
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