ISIS And International Terrorism

International terrorism involves any violent acts toward human life that violate federal or state law with a minimum sentence of twenty five years with labor. ISIS, a new terrorist group that stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, mimicked the name Isis the Egyptian goddess and ruler of the underworld. The organization started their attacks on Syria and Iraq to gain territory and independence, but later on they pushed their forces to many foreign countries. The organization films, propaganda movies to spread their ideas and beliefs, which leads to citizens tortured and influenced to join. The world has developed many counter plans against ISIS, but the group’s progress has crushed some of the plans made by the world. World powers have …show more content…
They also urge the government left Iraq before it had a stable government. Another topic that might scare United States citizens, America joins Europe in the war against ISIS: “Our Intelligence Community believes that thousands of foreigners--including Europeans and some Americans--have joined them in Syria and Iraq. Trained and battle-hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks” (Par. 14). These Westerns would have not known about ISIS spreading around in the Middle East unless ISIS started filming all of their beheadings and destroying old …show more content…
After many attacks on Egypt’s peace, Egypt has claimed ISIS as a national threat: “In an interview with Reuters in May, Sisi referred to Libya as a "security threat" Egypt faces, especially in regards to combating terrorism” (“U.S. Accuses Egypt and UAE,” par. 8). Egypt and U.A.E. recognize Libya as a threat, but the US does not want to take any defensive measures. After a televised statement from General Sisi about how ISIS should not terrify the citizens, ISIS marched their attack on Egyptian citizens. After the attack on Egyptian citizens from ISIS military: “Egypt conducted an airstrike against an Islamist stronghold in Libya on Monday in retaliation for the beheading of at least a dozen Egyptian Christians by a local franchise of the Islamic State” (Kirkpatrick, par. 1).Egypt destroyed most of the group’s resources in Libya sending it back a few steps. The attack conducted by Egypt changed the position of the group’s progress. After the airstrike from Egypt, America has stopped their military aid. As another source of military aid, Egypt secede out help from other