Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

than Syria and Iraq ISIS is a militant group that has taken over most of Syria and Iraq and their goal is to establish a caliphate. This terrorist group originated from another terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, that is originally from Afghanistan. From Al-Qaeda, ISIS tried making their group a better version of Al-Qaeda by learning how they did things in their organization. ISIS is a founding group in what today is known as terrorism. The start of ISIS began after the aftermath of the U.S. intervention

Known as the “invisible Sheikh” and the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri in Samara, Iraq to religiously devout lower middle-class parents. At 44 years old, al-Baghdadi has been classified as a first class terrorist and has rightly so earned that title for the havoc and anguish that his army of followers have inflicted on the whole of humanity. The IS leader was not the greatest of students, but excelled at Quranic recitation; he became friends

divided along the Sunni-Shia line, and ISIS does not perceive the Shias as “true Muslims”. Indeed, former leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi held a genocidal worldview: Shias are infidels – “a fifth column in the heart of Islam that must either convert or be exterminated”. Furthermore, when Zarqawi was still the leader of ISIS, his goal was to “trigger all-out sectarian war and to position AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which subsequently evolved to become ISIS) as the champion of the embattled Sunnis”. He had also

and from Iraq to Syria. This terror group started when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian independent terrorist, was released from prison in 1999 and moved to Afghanistan. There he starts building a training camp with the permission granted by the leaders of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and forms a group called Jama’at al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad (JTWJ) meaning Tawahid and Jihad group. After many attacks and suicide bombings, in September 2004, Zarqawi

The beginnings of ISIS,a Sunni jihadist group,can be traced back to 1999, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian jihadist, started the group . In 2010, after ISIS’s second leader was assassinated, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,a former scholar of Islamic studies and a US war prisoner back in 2004,took over and got the group back on track. He replenished their partially-killed-off leadership with dozens of Saddam’s old Ba’athist military personnel, who brought key experience to the group. Then in 2011, when

supported by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama Bin Laden in 1999 as Jamaat al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad (JTWJ). In 2004, during the Iraq invasion by the United States, Zarqawi’s JTWJ joined Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda to fight the United States. In 2006, the groups separated because of ideological differences. Whereas Zarqawi strongly believed in destroying or weeding out the global Islamic community, Bin Laden believed that Muslim communities were not the problem but only the “apostate” institutions. Zarqawi ignored

The Arab Springs played a part in the rise of ISIS because it caused a lot of instability and outrage between citizens of the countries. In Syria protests calling for the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad broke out in southern Syria in mid-March 2011 and spread through the country. The Assad regime responded with a brutal crackdown against protesters, drawing condemnation from international leaders and human rights groups. A leadership council

such as Al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the most notorious and bloody one ISIS. Particularly, these groups have some religion's background, and their values are

As of 10SEP2015 Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden, sent a message accusing the ISIS leader and self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of sedition, and declared all-out war against the Islamic State however no sooner than five days after this statement Al- Zawahiri extended an olive branch saying that all Muslim’s should work together against the common enemy. So to say the least these two organizations have complicated relations at best

Fallujah in April of 2014 United States (US) Forces turned fighting over to Iraqi Fallujah Brigade general (General Muhammed Latif a former Baathist general. The Brigade later disbanded, in return opened the city up to insurgents. “Operation Phantom Fury” (Al-Fajr meaning Dawn) was the second Battle of Fallujah. Which consisted of United States (US), British, and Iraqi force (Multi National Forces). Operation were conducted from November