Why Is ISIS Important To Fight In Iraq

Terrorism has been a terrible act of hate and violence against multiple groups that people have been fighting for decades to eradicate. ISIS is just one of the many extremist organizations that Iraq and many other countries have been trying to dismantle over the course of numerous years. Currently, a fight in Iraq is taking place for the anti-ISIS forces to take over one of the largest cities under the control of the terrorist group. About one million residents of the Mosul fled their city when the influence of ISIS was involuntary thrusted upon them. Thousands of Iraqi security forces, Peshmerga forces and Paramilitary units, along with a few hundred American troops, will work together in a fight that could take months to invade Mosul. It …show more content…
They are proud of their country for fighting against the extremist group so they write the story to make it seem like they are doing good. Personally, I am afraid for those fighting the battle and hope that they do defeat ISIS. This event could be a major impact on the war in our favor, so I am optimistic that the troops will prevail and capture Mosul back. This event could affect me because if anti-ISIS soldiers lose, ISIS could take the war closer to America, towards where my family and I live. On the other hand, if they win, maybe soldiers could come back and the threat of the terrorists would shrink, leaving pride in the area inside me where the fear for people’s lives was. A bias is in this article as it is being written from the opposite side of ISIS. The article states, “Mosul's residents remain in the clutches of a terror group known for exploiting civilians as human shields” (Walsh, Blau, Grinberg, Hume, CNN News). This is written to show how horrible the extremists are, but if the author was ISIS members or supporters, they would state that in a way to show pride. That, and they wouldn’t refer to themselves as a “terror