The Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant

From the time when the United States invaded Iraq eleven years ago, a noxious insurgence aeriated at numerous customs of conflict which has attested irrepressible, malleable, and tenacious strive to convey on hostility. A nation of Saddam and al-Zarqawi, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) reins a third of conjointly Syria and Iraq in its charisma avowed bravura of war. Around the beginning of 2010, U.S. and Iraqi forces destroyed two topmost al-Qaeda and Iraq frontrunners; which then sanctioned Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to become the spearhead of an assemblage destabilized by a strenuous operation directed at culminating a Sunni uprising in the country (CNN, 2015). By virtually all provision, Iraq is entangled in civil war. In addition, ISIS has engrossed nearly twelve thousand supporters from overseas already and at least three thousand devotees are from the West (Feroli & Dulin, 2013).

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, popularly known as ISIS and Daesh, is the 21st centuries rising global threat to humanity. The world has united to reduce and ultimately prevent genocide. In the paper ISIS will be referenced as Daesh. The initial part of the essay will cover Daesh origins, ideology, goals, and objectives. It is essential to know the similarities of the present Daesh brutalities and historic barbarisms of Wahhabism. The rest of the essay will focus on leadership, funding, and capabilities, such as physical bases support locations. The conclusion will attempt to raise concern of the internal threat within the United States. This essay will be limited to sources not having access to restricted or classified information. The closing goal of this essay is to embolden the serious threat to the United States and other countries seeking pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

On September 11th 2001, America experienced the most catastrophic terrorist attack on its home soil in the history of the country. The men responsible for this event hailed from Middle Eastern countries and identified as Islamic extremists. Two years after the attack, former president George W. Bush, announced that the United States would declare war on the terrorism and on the nations in the Middle East that harbored the terrorists group Al-Qaeda. The men at the top of this organization have been taken out of power and Al-Qaeda’s influence and leaders have been silenced to a certain extent. However, the United States still faces resistance in this unstable region and a new terrorist organization, ISIS, has appeared and is showing the

Most Americans do not know what ISIS is. However, those who do know , know how dangerous these people are becoming. The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham also known as ISIS, an Al Qaeda affiliation is not only alive but spreading and spreading fast. The group started out in Iraq as the world known Al Qaeda before rebranding themselves. Though both jihadi groups strived to establish an independent Islamic state in the region of Iraq , ISIS believes in a much more brutal regimine. Threating to take over both Iraq and Syria, killing and beheading both their own and American/British foreigners in the name of their faith. The United States should refrain and stop all involvement in fighting ISIS.

Isis:”Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.” I think this is utterly digesting, but it reminded me of how people use religions to their benefit.This can even go for Christians who use the bible to

(intro)September 11, 2001 is the defining moment in the annals of terrorism. Today, after the large ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terror, US is stronger and better positioned to safeguard and support its interests against the risks of an insecure world. However, he still continues to face new dynamic challenges. I argue that the most pressing national security challenge facing the United States in the next 5-10 years is the violent extremism and terrorism derived from ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) group. MP1.ISIS is posing a persistent threat to our security and terrorist attacks within the US Homeland, but also against US citizens abroad and our Allies raise a grave danger. MP2Moreover, ISIS radical ideology undermines all the democracy values by which we live; the respect for human rights, the freedom of speech and religion. MP3 The two main factors that influenced my interpretation of ISIS challenge are the potential risk that ISIS could attain and use weapons of mass destruction, and MP4 its capability to recruit, radicalize and motivate, especially young people, to terrorist acts. MP5 US should continue to lead the fight with our Allies and partners to dismantle ISIS terrorist organization and its violent extremism ideology.

Many theories and explanations explaining the actions and existence of ISIS, and how it might be overcome in order to ensure the safety and security of countries worldwide. Two competing theories – realism and constructivism – give us much to consider about how we understand and react current events and future ones: “How a state manages those opportunities and obligations depends on its definition of the threat, its understanding of the players involved, and its assumptions about capabilities and responses both at home and abroad. In other words, a state must make a decision to balance the hard facts of realism with the potential of a more liberal foreign policy.” (Buros, 2011). Another thing to consider is the rest of the community: “How a state responds to that threat relies on basic assumptions made regarding the threat, capabilities of themselves and their allies, and the willingness of the international community to acquiesce to perceived aggression.” (ibid). Generally put, the proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) flourished with instability and a weak government in Iraq. With previous ties to Al Qaeda, its involvement in fighting against Bashar al-Assad and capture of land in Iraq and Syria, coupled with extreme violent methods and rhetoric gave the region enough to be concerned about. How this occurred can be explained a few ways.

The enfeebled state of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) has magnified ISIL’s reputation and confidence, temporarily masking its own weaknesses and vulnerabilities. ISIL is still riding a wave of military successes, but its opponents are recovering and drawing upon increasing international support. Its offensive power has tended to diminish as it approaches majority Shia or Kurdish-populated areas . Momentum has tremendous value in war, but it is fragile, and ISIL may be forced to gradually surrender the strategic initiative in Iraq, as it has done on individual Iraqi battlefields such as Kirkuk, which held against ISIL thrusts in mid-June, and Makhmour, which was retaken from ISIL on August 10. The group’s leadership is clearly comprised of talented deliberate planners, capable of crafting far-sighted political-military campaigns that are resilient enough to survive the deaths of their progenitors. Yet the pace of the war against ISIL is accelerating, and the group’s ability to continually shape and control the conflict will be sorely tested. Although they may boast a deep bench of talented individuals following years of prisoner releases, prison breaks and recruitment, leadership casualties will nonetheless complicate their ability to hold the initiative in the

The Rise of ISIS” begins by recapping the domino-crash in Iraq after the U.S. military withdrawal, a period that conversely coincided with the ascendance of ISIS: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s paranoia that Sunnis were out to destroy his tenuous regime and his ruthless attempt to quash their opposition to Shia domination; the war-weary United States’ disregard of how Syria’s civil war presented an irresistible opportunity for the splintered and mostly impotent al Qaeda in Iraq to rise again on both sides of the Syrian border; the Obama administration’s reluctance to apply diplomatic force even as the Maliki government flouted U.S. wishes for a more inclusive alliance in Iraq; and inaction and inertia on the part of the United States and its allies as ISIS swept over territory integral to the national identity of Iraq and Syria.

Since the beginning of mankind, terrorism was used as a basic fighting tactic utilized by all nations in the pursuit of world dominance. However, over the course of thousands of years, nations grew and evolved as did terrorism along with it. Today we face terrorism like no one has ever seen, as different terrorism organizations strive to inflict fear into civilization through various types of tactics to fulfill their own personal goals. By exploiting even the strongest nation’s vulnerability, a small terrorist organization could inflict not only fear but massive casualties and deaths. In particularly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as “ISIS,” has claimed themselves as the new face of terrorism. Since the death of Osama

This assignment is a qualitative study about Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). What it ISIS? Where does it come from? What are its intentions? These questions seem to be simple but can be misrepresenting. According to Schmitt, Major General Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the U.S. in the Middle East, admitted that that he had barely begun figuring out the Islamic State?s appeal. ?We have not defeated the idea,? he said. ?We do not even understand the idea.? In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State as ?not Islamic? and as al-Qaeda?s second team statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors (Schmitt, 2014).

In Syria, we currently face the challenge of an enemy unlike we have ever seen before. The group ISIS or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has seized control of a large region of the two countries that is approximately equivalent to the size of the neighboring country of Jordan. This is a group much more formidable than any terrorist organization that we have seen before – they are not in fact Al Qaeda’s JV team. Therefore, we cannot fight them or treat them as we did Al Qaeda. Where their predecessors operated in a system comparable to America’s street gangs, ISIS has an organized, top down, leadership system, and operates more or less as a small country attempting to make territorial gains.

ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is an extremist group that branched from the Sunni terrorist group, al Qaeda, specifically the Iraq faction. Although ISIS has primarily focused on initiatives in the Middle Eastern region, the recent killing of American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotlof following U.S. airstrikes targeting ISIS, has caused controversy as to whether ISIS is a threat to the United States. The first invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003 gradually led to the conflict known as the Iraq War. After decades spent fighting, US troops are still on the ground in the Middle East today. Over the past few years, ISIS has emerged as a major player in the region, and has been brutally attacking its own country and people over the past year, attempting to take control of the entire states of Iraq and Syria. The growing influence of ISIS and their use of extreme violence has led to debate over whether the United States should send troops to help combat ISIS. In this report, we will determine if it is economically savvy or detrimental to send troops, if it is ethical to invade combat ISIS on the ground, and if it is politically prudent to do so.

The final step in stopping ISIS in the Middle East is to stabilize the countries in which they gained their power, Iraq and Syria. By looking at what caused the destabilization in the first place will allow for a better understanding of the policies and actions that need to be put in place in order to move the conflict toward de-escalation. Transparency International explains, “when disenfranchised populations see […] their governments fail to deliver services, people get angry […and] turn to other bodies for protection, swelling the ranks of insurgent or organised crime groups. Corruption breeds inequality, which has been shown to increase violence” (Transparency International 2015). In Iraq, as previously discussed, ISIS was able to take

Background: ISIS, having occupied territory in western Iraq, eastern Syria, and Libya, commands great authority, both political and theological, over Muslims across the world. Since the group’s 2003 origins, it has capitalized on the disenfranchisement of Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria – particularly