Baghdadi’s declaration as Caliph have increased his credibility and notoriety allowing successful implementation of social media recruitment, provided reasoning for other extremist groups to join forces and merge with ISIS, resulting in a large scale growth for ISIS support in Syria. The combination of all these elements have allowed ISIS to begin taking control of Syria. This is a change in tactic in the way terrorist organizations encourage …show more content…
It is a known fact that Turkey and Syria have not had the best of relationships over the years but with Russia serving basically as a third party mediator Turkey feels confident that with Russia being a mediator with the two that relations can be restored. Mr. Assad have won the war, thanks largely to Russian and Iranian intervention, and the Syrian rebels are doomed. There is no point in their fighting on, because all their outside supporters are peeling away. Turkey is now cooperating with Russia, in three weeks Donald Trump will be U.S. President and also cooperating with Moscow, and Saudi Arabia is hopelessly over-committed to its futile war in