THE BEGINNINGS OF ISIS
In the year 2006 of October, al-Qaeda announced to a new sub terrorist group that …show more content…
“[ISIS] defied orders from an al-Qaeda leader” when told to ISIS. In his article, Beauchamp explains the conflicting relationship between ISIS and al- Qaeda to relinquish control of Jabhat al-Nusra. That quote shows how ISIS started to defy al-Qaeda and take control of itself. Furthermore, Beauchamp provided that ISIS and al- Qaeda parted ways in February 2014. In addition, Barack Mendelsohn’s commentary stating, “Today, ISIS and al-Qaeda compete for influence over Islamist extremist groups around the world.” After working together hand in hand as allies, the two terrorist groups realize that they had different methods towards approaching things and so began to separate. However, after their separation they seem to be even more competitive. They both want the same thing but act differently; one group is much more radical than the …show more content…
Foreign aid are flooding into Turkey and Syria, as the US and the UK try desperately to stop execution involving their citizens. Even countries as far as China is concern about the rapid development of ISIS, as ISIS is one of the wealthiest organized terrorist today, bring concern and fear towards many nations. Kobani, a Syrian town near the border of Turkey, is now th main target for ISIS is being carefully watched as neighboring cities are being invaded by ISIS. Baghdad, an Iraqi suburb is now currently infiltrated with ISIS, and many concerns rises due to its proximity to the Baghdad air port "Islamic State’s proximity to the airport is especially worrisome, because they are now armed with shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles with a 20-mile range,...it has seized up vast territory in northern Syria and Iraq, could allow the militants to shut down the airport", as stated in the article called ISIS bearing down on Baghdad even as world watches Kobani siege by Fox New, a American news source. The quote shows that the ISIS forces are already planning what to take over next, the planned weapons that could be utilize to control whole sections of the countries. The world is very concern about their growing power, the US took actions via air strikes, "Waves of U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters appear to have done