Wikipedia's first sentence called it “two teenaged austrian nationals who at the height of the ascendancy of the islamic state of iraq and the levant”. Today it says “two teenaged austrian nationals who”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Sabina Selimovic (c. 16 February 1999 – unknown), and Samra Kesinovic (c. 25 September 1997 – unknown), were two teenaged Austrian nationals who at the height of the ascendancy of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militia's conquests in the Middle East in April 2014, abandoned their family homes in Central Europe and illicitly travelled to Syria to join it. Their actions drew substantial media commentary due to the ongoing media reports of en masse barbarity that the Islamic State forces were engaging in, and raised questions as to why people of European extraction would be drawn to such an entity.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Sabina Selimovic (c. 16 February 1999 – ?), and Samra Kesinovic (c. 25 September 1997 – ?), were two teenaged Austrian nationals who at the height of the ascendancy of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militia's conquests in the Middle East in April 2014, abandoned their family homes in Central Europe and illicitly travelled to Syria to join it. Their actions drew substantial media commentary due to the ongoing media reports of en masse barbarity that the Islamic State forces were engaging in, and raised questions as to why people of European extraction would be drawn to such an entity.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Austrian teenagers who joined ISIL Sabina Selimovic (c. 16 February 1999 – ????), and Samra Kesinovic (c. 25 September 1997 – ????), were two teenaged Austrian nationals who at the height of the ascendancy of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militia's conquests in the Middle East in April 2014, abandoned their family homes in Central Europe and illicitly travelled to Syria to join it. Their actions drew substantial media commentary due to the ongoing media reports of en masse barbarity that the Islamic State forces were engaging in, and raised questions as to why people of European extraction would be drawn to such an entity.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1176927676.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “two teenaged austrian nationals who at the height of the ascendancy of the islamic state of iraq and the levant”. Today it says “two teenaged austrian nationals who”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
two teenaged austrian nationals who at the height of the ascendancy of the islamic state of iraq and the levant
Now
two teenaged austrian nationals who
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