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By Ian BremmerJuly 8, 2016 10:07 AM EDTRamadan. A month of peace and prayer, this year the annual Muslim holiday was punctuated by ISIS violence that grew increasingly intense. These five facts detail the facts behind this yearrsquo particularly bloody Ramadan.1. Losing TerritoryISIS started off as the nasty, brutish and shorter younger brother of al Qaeda. But itrsquo violent and indiscriminate targeting of civiliansmdash;even by al Qaeda standardsmdash;proved too much for al Qaedarsquo leadership, and it cut ties with the Levant-based offshoot. The Islamic State then tore through Iraq and Syria stanley cup in the summer of 2014, capturing roughly one-third of both countries an area equivalent in size to Great Britain in just a matter of months. It also captured the banks inside this territory, providing a financial haul of at least $700 million that immediately transformed ISIS into the best-funded terrorist group in history.Read More: The Wave of ISIS Terror Attacks Is a Mark of Weaknessmdash;Not StrengthBut the Islamic State has seen better days; under intensified attack from many of its enemies, it has lost 47 percent of the territory it once controlled in Iraq, including strongholds in Ramadi and Fallujah, and 20 percent in Syria. Today, ISIS finds itself against the ropes for the first time since its meteoric rise two yea stanley cup rs ago. That makes the group desperate to pr stanley cup ove its continuing powermdash;and paradoxically, even more dangerous. Foreign Policy, Washington Post Vuax Chelsea Clinton Gets Ready to Take the Stage
Elizabeth Renstrom for TIMEBy John Patrick PullenMarch 10, 2015 6:00 AM EDTBack in the 2000s, it seemed like new wireless data technologies were as much of a reason to upgrade our phones as new hardware. Since the launch of the current 4G wireless da adidas samba ta network, though, progress in the world of mobile data has seemed to slow. But at last week Mobile World Congress mdash; an annual gathering of all the gurus who make wireless communication possible mdash; we got a glimpse of the mobile broadband future: 5G.Your first interaction with wireless data probably came in 2007, when Apple original iPhone was released, using EDGE data networks. Then, just over a year later, came the iPhone 3G, running on 3G data networks moving up to seven time af1 s faster than their predecessors. By early 2011, T-Mobile claimed to have Americarsquo first 4G network, a technology that runs 10 times faster than 3G.What next That 5G wireless data. While the 5G standards have yet to be finalized, it could pack up to 1,000 times more capacity than 4G, says the European Commission. But herersquo the catch: It wonrsquo;t be ready until at least 2020.PHOTOS: The Rise of Mobile Phones from 1916 af1 to Today1916 A German field telephone station in the Aisne department of northern France during World War I.Paul Thompson鈥擣PG/Getty Images1970French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday in a scene from the film Point de Chute aka Falling Point .Keystone/Holton/Getty Images1980An ear