Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate, — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“RADICAL MUSLIM LEADERS BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO RESTORE THE CALIPHATE AND THUS BRING ABOUT THE END OF WORLD HISTORY” — John Price Copy Share Image
Erdogan wants a caliphate. We Kurds are in his way. Erdogan can't stop us politically, so he is denouncing us as terrorists. — Selahattin Demirtas Copy Share Image
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision . — David Selbourne Copy Share Image
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. — Siraj Wahhaj Copy Share Image
The ghost caliphate will be a virtual organization; it'll be decentralised, with no leadership, and it will just encourage people to keep… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For the Arabs, and the above all for the 1.2 million Arabs of Palestine, the partitioning of the land in which they… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.” — Simon Cottee Copy Share Image
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
The less the ISIS 'caliphate' exists as a physical entity, the less the group can claim it is the 'Islamic State' that… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image