Is this group known as ISIS, ISIL, or both?
ISIS is Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
ISIS is also Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. Another poster told me that al-Sham is the ancient reference to Damascus.
three-card monte, by design...
at this point, the 'info' we are getting from the whole of the mid east is 'fast & furious' to suck in the low info, as well as the well read citizenry, to enable the PTB to do as they please...
fortunately for us, that since the 60s at least, while weve been enjoying our bread & circuses and allowing all the muzz countries to gain strength and wealth on our petro-dime, each of the muzz sects are still untrusting of the others as apostates, thinking their ultimate allies to be a bigger enemy than the jews or other 'Christian' infidels...
while they jockey for position to, we shouldve been standing back and allowing them to kill each other, as that is all they know or care about...
our muzz government and the obambam are waist deep in this obfuscation and enabling, and with our tech/weapons will ultimately be the ringleader in assembling a 'big enuff' mass of varying muzzies to quit fighting amongst themselves, at least for a minute, and eradicate the 'scum' from Israel...then they can resume slaughtering each other in the name of mo-ham-head [piss and bacon be upon it]...
I think the press is shifting from ISIS to ISIL lately as too many people are asking what the former has to do with Isis the Egyptian goddess. Things are getting weird.