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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…

counterterrorism strategy” (Whitehouse). I believe we should not deploy our troops, or our country into the middle of the Syria’s civil war. To begin, we just got out of a war with the Middle East. In the beginning if the terrorist group from Iraq never attacked us we would have never gone to this war. As an American we must fight for our country, since they attacked us on our soil, then it is our duty to retaliate and show them what we are made of. Before 9/11 happened, If George H W Bush…

the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Syria is located in the Middle East, and part of Southwestern Asia. It has coastline along the eastern Mediterranean Sea, just below Turkey. The neighboring countries of Syria are Iraq, Israel, and Jordan. Syria is going through a rough time with ISIS. ISIS is taking over Syria rapidly and is on the move for others as well. Sources like CNN say, “the militant group has seized a chunk of lord stretching from northern. Syria to central Iraq, has struck fear…

government first killed Saddam Hussein in an air strike. The US destroyed the government in Iraq, but also destroyed Infrastructure. So basically it was US fault that ISIS was formed. There were lots of people who lived under the rule of Saddam Hussein so they may not have been so happy when their ruler died. Also the people in Iraq were living normal lives and when Saddam Hussein was ruling. Since the US destroyed Iraq, it was easy for ISIS to take over. ISIS however was a very small group…

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…

For at least three years now, the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has spread and affected people and places all over the world. Officially originating in 2013, ISIS is a violent jihadist group founded mostly in Iraq and Syria that has members from all over the world due to their global recruiting system. They have killed thousands of people in their acquired territories that do not agree with what ISIS stands for or anyone resisting their rule. ISIS has grown into a serious…

strained relations between Iraq and the United States. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Blackwater's rights to conduct work in Iraq were temporarily suspended. In 2014, four Blackwater employees were tried and convicted in U.S. federal court; one of murder, and the other three of manslaughter and firearms charges. Blackwater's first assignment was to provide 20 men with top secret clearance to protect the CIA headquarters and another base that was…

In march of 2011, the civil war that is changing millions of Syrian Lives had begun. What initiated with several anti-government protests has now become into a brutal war for democracy. More than 250,000 have died, 1.2 million have fled the country, and more than 6.5 million people are trapped inside war bound Syria (‘’Syria: The story of the conflict’’) . Although many of the refugees have fled to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; the UN has safely relocated many others…

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…

Fahrenheit 9/11, a documentary directed by Michael Moore, is a political film about the war on terror and the reasons behind the U.S.A’s military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film opens with the 2000 U.S. presidential election, questioning the legitimacy of George W. Bush’s win in Florida against Al Gore. Gore is the frontrunner until Fox News predicts Bush as the winner, causing all other networks to retract their previous statements about Gore and agree with Fox News. It is then…