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ISIS Explained

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria a.k.a ISIS is currently the most dangerous group is the Middle East. If you don't know what ISIS is your living under a rock if you don't know who ISIS is. But I'll tell you. The Islamic State a.k.a ISIS a.k.a ISIL is a Sunni Muslim Terrorist group in the Middle East that is currently fighting for territory in the Middle East and also doesn't want to be fooled by superpowers such as Great Britain and the United States. And ISIS wanted to prove their not weak by beheading people, commiting massacres, and also took blame for the 2016 Paris Attacks. The Islamic State's goal is to form .... well an Islamic State between the borders of Iraq and Syria but it is believed that ISIS will attempt to later expand as far as Myanmar, Spain, Nigeria, and Great Britain. But as ISIS' current state it will be impossible to do so. So how did ISIS form and why? Well I'll tell you. We have to go way back in 1979 when the Soviet Union still had control of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. The Soviets had a border with Afghanistan. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to help a puppet Communist Dictator in Afghanistan because recently a group known as the Mujahideen who were fighting the Afghani government. Many young men from the Middle East and young men from neighboring Pakistan joined the Mujahideen believing it will help Islam. One of the leaders of the Mujahideen was a rich, educated Saudi Arabian named Osama Bin Laden. A member of the Mujahideen was a Jordanian named Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi and Bin Laden didn't really like each other but we'll talk about that soon. In 1989 the Soviets withdraw, so eventually the soldiers went back home. Zarqawi went back to Jordan and Bin Laden went back to Saudi Arabia. In the 1990's Bin Laden forms Al-Qaeda and declares war on the United States. Remember the Mujahideen? Well the United States funded $3,000,000,000 to the Mujahideen against the Soviets and the Soviet backed Afghanistan. So again one of the leaders Osama Bin Laden used some of that $3,000,000,000 for Al-Qaeda to fight against the United States. Zarqawi makes his own terror group like Bin Laden's but it later collapses. Bin Laden and Zarqawi eventually return to Afghanistan which was under attack by the Taliban. In September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacked New York City by ramming planes into the Twin Towers. The United States reply by invading Afghanistan. Bin Laden flees to neighboring Pakistan and Zarqawi flees to a lawless region in Iraq. In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq and overthrew the mostly Sunni Muslim dictatorship of Saddam Hussien. That leaves the army that worked for Saddam Hussien's regime were angry and unemployed join Jihadist groups against the U.S believing the U.S' invasion of Iraq was the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan all over again. And just like Afghanistan people from the Islamic world come to fight against the foreign invaders. Zarqawi was one of them and their leader. Zarqawi's terror group was the most dangerous in Iraq. Eventually Zarqawi's Sunni Muslim group starts a Civil War against the Shia Muslim Iraqi government with the Sunni's in the west, the Shia government in the Southeast and , and finally the Kurds in the north and northeast. Al-Qaeda attempts to show influence but eventually Al-Qaeda forms an alliance with Zarqawi's group then Zarqawi's group becomes Al-Qaeda in Iraq or AQI for short. But eventually Sunni's revolt against Zarqawi and the Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike. So AQI is weak and is unable to fight. In 2011 the U.S withdraws from what looks like a stable Iraq. Also in 2011 Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad cracks down on protests and eventually people fight back starting the Syrian Civil War. Back in Iraq, Zarqawi's group still exist and still has ties to Al-Qaeda but instead of AQI it becomes the Islamic State in Iraq or ISI for short. ISI was being lead by a religious scholar named Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. In 2012, Baghdadi sends a deputy to Syria for more Al-Qaeda influence during the Syrian Civil War. Also Baghdadi blows up prison to get former Jihadists to join ISI so the group can get stronger. In 2013 Baghdadi anounced that he taking full control of the Al-Qaeda allied forces in Syria and Iraq. ISI expands into Syria later naming themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or ISIS for short. Al-Qaeda rejected Baghdadi's grab for power and in 2014 exiles him. The deputy he sent to Syria fights back, now their is 2 Jihadist groups at war. Baghdadi forms large army and it seems he can invade a weak Iraq because of corruption and ISIS got very little resistance from the invasion. ISIS controls a 3rd of Iraq and a chunk of Syria. ISIS' plans were bigger than Al-Qaeda would ever think of. ISIS would invade almost the entirety of Afro-Eurasia and guess what! That impossible. See ISIS is surrounded by enemies and is losing territory every day from Syrians, Iraqis, Kurds, and the 60+ independent more powerful nations that they declared war on. And guess who those 60+ countries are, those 60+ countries are the UK, U.S, France, Russia, China, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Belguim, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Oman, Bahrain, Kosovo, Japan, Taiwan, Kuwait, Estonia, Lithuania, Albania, Spain, Portugal, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, South Korea, Moldova, and Qatar. ISIS. It's time to go down.