Islamic State of Iraq

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters seized the government compound in the city of Ramadi on May 15 and edged closer to what would be their biggest victory in Iraq this year, officials said.

You can't tell the players without a program and it's no wonder that people feel confused by the plethora of names the terrorist groups use. To make matters worse, they keep splitting and sometimes they change their names just for the hell of it. So here's a guide you can stick on your wall.

Iraqi officials say car bombings in and around Baghdad have killed at least six civilians.
                   
A police officer said the deadliest in attacks on April 26 was in the nearby town of Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, where a car bomb exploded, killing at least four civilians and wounding nine.
                   

Two men were arrested in Melbourne on April 18 for allegedly planning an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-inspired attack at Anzac Day commemorations honouring soldiers who fought and died for Australia -- the country's most important national event.

Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are holding hostage at least 50 civilians seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said.
      
They were kidnapped from the village of Mabujeh in Hama province on March 31, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
      

Iraqi forensic teams began on April 6 excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants as they swept across northern Iraq.
   

Amnesty International said on April 2 it was investigating reports of serious human rights violations committed by Iraqi government and allied forces in the operation to retake the city of Tikrit.

Syria and Iraq and have become a ?veritable international finishing school for extremists,? United Nations experts have reported to the U.N. Security Council, noting that there were more than 22,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries in the Mideast neighbors.

US and coalition aircraft bombed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists in Tikrit on March 25, lending air power to Iraqi forces who have struggled to recapture the town despite Iranian assistance.
      

The US military's top officer landed in Baghdad on March 9 as Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their largest operation to date against the jihadists.