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Islamic State – Yemen Province
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “branch of the militant islamist group islamic state of iraq and the levant”. Today it says “branch of the militant islamist group islamic state”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Islamic State, active in Yemen The Islamic State – Yemen Province ( IS-YP ; Arabic : الدولة الإسلامية – ولاية اليَمَن , romanized : ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah – Wilayat al-Yaman ) is a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State (IS), active in Yemen . IS announced the group's formation on 13 November 2014.
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “branch of the militant islamist group islamic state of iraq and the levant”. Today it says “branch of the militant islamist group islamic state”. Read the current article and compare.
| 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| militant | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| islamist | 1 | 1 | 1 |
What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
branch of the militant islamist group islamic state of iraq and the levant
Now
branch of the militant islamist group islamic state
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