Lt. General James Terry
A top US general in charge of US operations against ISIS in Iraq has started callingthe militants by a derogatory name that the group despises.
At a press conference on Thursday, Lieutenant General James Terry used the name "Daesh" almost exclusively while discussing ISIS.
Terry said he had began to use the term Daesh instead of ISIS at the request of Middle Eastern partners in the anti-ISIS coalition who wished to draw a sharp line between the group and Islam.
Terry's decision to call the group Daesh follows a general trend towards addressing ISIS by the name that the groups views as highly pejorative. Within the past few weeks Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot has takento calling the group by Daesh, as has US Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Daesh hates being referred to by this term, and what they don’t like has an instinctive appeal to me,” Abbott said.
Daesh is an acronym for the Arabic version of ISIS's name: al-Dawla al-Islamyia fil Iraq wa’al Sham.
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