As the years went by, AQI evolved and transformed. In 2013, it broke away from Al-Qaeda and became the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared his intention to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
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