How to pronounce“ISIS”in English

ISIS's basic goal is holding on to its territory in Iraq and Syria.

ISIS's rule for 2 months. There's no sign that President Obama's airstrikes are going to push ISIS back from there.

So ISIS's attack in Paris might not have been out of strength.

The policy plays perfectly into ISIS's most vital narrative, that the West persecutes Muslims and that is a holy duty to fight back.

Only a tiny percentage of Sunnis actively support ISIS's goals, but at least for now they appear willing to let ISIS operate in their territory freely because they see

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Many Sunnis are tired of their Shia-dominated and increasingly authoritarian government, and welcome or at least tolerate ISIS's arrival.

So when 800 ISIS soldiers challenged 30,000 Iraqi army troops in the mostly-Sunni city, the Iraqi troops, most of them, they put down their arms and

It was this Iraqi army that delivered the latest blow when they took over Isis's biggest city Mosul.

And so the difference this time for us was we discovered that ISIS's second best form of revenue

Mosul which was ISIS's capital in Iraq has fallen and right now the US is helping

That is fueling ISIS's power because Iraqi Sunnis flock to ISIS.

That ultimately is where ISIS's

So the idea here is that ISIS wants to show that you will pay a price if you attack ISIS in Syria and Iraq.