History of Iraq

Jimmy Carter contributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict by establishing the Camp David Accords which helped ease tension between the Arabs and Israeli. On November 9, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announces that he is "ready to go to the Israeli parliament itself" to resolve the Mid-East conflict. This is despite the fact that the two countries do not have diplomatic relations and are technically still at war. On November 15,1977, through the US, Israel formally extends…

By every measure “ISIL poses a direct and significant threat to the U.S., and proposes to be the new ideological leader. The group uses terrorist and insurgency tactics against Syrians, the people of Iraq, and sectarian regions of the Middle East.” (Threat Assessment of ISIL and Al Qaeda in Iraq, Syria and Beyond, 9/13/2014). The leader of ISIS claims the United States to be in direct conflict with ISIS. The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) believes any attack by extremist or…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, was born from an Al-Qaeda faction under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Under his leadership ISIS has grown from relative obscurity to a global threat. Using military expertise, torture and psychological warfare ISIS has been able to take control of large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria. ISIS has captured prisoners and through a series of videos they have threatened America and Britain. The latest of these videos featured…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a terrorist organization consisting of more than 30,000 people. ISIS has been an ongoing problem for over 10 years. ISIS began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before rebranding as ISIS two years later. This organization is headed by Iraq-born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. ISIS has conquered Mosul, which is located in northern Iraq. ISIS makes a portion of…

term you hear frequently on the news and, well, pretty much everwhere else, too. Do we actually know what ISIS is, or do we just go by what we hear over the news? ISIS stands for the Islamaic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIS is run by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This group controls the western parts of Iraq, Syria, and some parts in Libya, but not too many. The group was formed in 1999, which pledged to al-Queada and went on to participate in the Iraqi Insurgency. al-Queada was under the leadership of…

Instead, Iraq and Syria, without Assad (because he should be removed from power), should negotiate with the different religious sects, Sunni Shi’ite, Kurdish, to understand their issues, and mitigate the discrepancies that resulted from their subjugation. On top…

ISIS is an expansion of ISI (Islamic State in Iraq) and is working in both Iraq and Syria. Just until two years ago, ISIS had been a subsided group of al-Qaeda. They are now becoming rivals of al-Qaeda. ISIS is a very specific Islamic group that wants to use force and military power to change the beliefs of the Middle East. They use views of pure religion to raise large amounts of money from donors and use that money to recruit soldiers from all over the world to help Islam. ISIS is a mafia-like…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, has created turmoil throughout the already war torn areas of the Middle East. They have captured multiple towns from central Iraq to the southern border of Turkey. ISIS is a terrorist organization that has carved out land in order to create a new state based on the ideological stance that state and church should be intertwined, also known as a caliphate or “the rank or reign of a caliph,” where the laws of the state are directly…

stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and is an extremist group that rules by Wahhabi and/or salafi law. ISIS is a well-known terrorist group that is known for kidnapping western journalists and aid workers as part of their tactics. In Arabic ISIS the well-known terrorist group is also called daesh. Hillary Clinton said that “It can’t be an American fight” but she was wrong, because if not us then who would take the fight to ISIS? ISIS has an operation base that is in Iraq and Syria it is…

Three years ago ISIS did not exist. The idea of ISIS was a complete joke. Who would've even thought that a terrorist group would rule most of Syria and Iraq? Imagine one day your just sitting at home, watching T.V, just like every other day, then BOOM! Random people barge in your house with mask and guns. Then the terroist starts screaming at you to get on the floor with the rest of your family. You are crying and looking at your Mom trying to calm the baby from crying. These men take the…