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Views: How the Assad Regime Helped Create, Support, and Perpetuate ‘ISIS’?

2021-11-18

766

ISIS Fighters hold their weapons as they stand on confiscated cigarettes before setting them on fire، Raqqa, Syria, 2 April 2014. Reuters, Stringer.

On 16 November 1986, on the sixteenth anniversary of the so-called Corrective Movement,[1] Syrian president Hafez al-Assad strenuously denied that…

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Views: Sectarianism, Authoritarianism, and the Rise of ISIS in Iraq

2021-09-09

426

An Iraqi family, which fled from the violence in Mosul following the city’s fall to ISIL, sits inside a tent at a camp on the outskirts of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, 12 June 2014. Reuters, stringer.

In 2011, the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) militant group was at its territorial and operational nadir.[1] ISI went from…