LATEST THOMAS WICTOR:
How the Islamic State Was Defeated in Iraq and Syria.
From 2015 to 2019.
by Thomas Wictor
Mon, March 4, 2019
The Islamic State began as the Organisation of Monotheism and Jihad, created in 1999 by Jordanian career criminal Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Originally the group wanted to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy, but after the American invasion of Iraq, Zarqawis goal became igniting a sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the Middle East. He went to Iraq in 2003 and launched what was at that time the most violent insurgency in the regions history...snip
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