In Trump’s White House, it’s ISIS, not ISIL

Published January 24, 2017 8:58pm ET



In the battle between ISIS and ISIL, ISIS has apparently won.

President Obama and his administration most often referred to the Islamic terrorist group as “ISIL,” an acronym based its self-proclaimed name, “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant,” levant referring to an area of the Middle East to the east of the Mediterranean Sea.

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