
It is reported that members of the Islamic State of Iraq
& Syria (ISIS) killed two young children simply because they
were not Muslim.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria the Levant (Arabic:
الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام ad-Dawla al-Islāmiyya fi al-‘Irāq
wa-sh-Shām) abbreviated as ISIS or ISIL (acronym in
Arabic: داعش, Dā’ish), is an insurgent group active in Iraq
and Syria. It was established in the early years of the
Iraq War, and pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004,
becoming known as al-Qaeda in Iraq. The group was
composed of and supported by a variety of insurgent
groups, including its predecessor organisation, the
Mujahideen Shura Council, Al-Qaeda, Jaysh
al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba, Katbiyan Ansar
Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah, Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura,
etc., and other clans whose population is of Sunni faith.
It aimed to establish a caliphate in the Sunni dominated
regions of Iraq, later expanding this to include Syria.
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Now in Syria, The group, the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria-ISIS, which is linked to Al Qaeda and known as
ISIS,
seems less interested in fighting President Bashar
al-Assad than in imposing its ultraconservative version
of Islam, antigovernment activists said. It banned
smoking, ousted other rebels from their bases, and
detained and executed those it decided were opposed to
its international jihadist project.
Their goal is to establish an Islamic Republic State
composed of Iraq & Syria :
Besides its affiliation with Al Qaeda They espouse a
violent form of Islam, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
seeks to erase the border between Syria and Iraq and
build an Islamic state that will serve as a base for
international jihad. The group is the main destination
for the foreign fighters who have flocked to Syria to join
the war.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters, many of them
Sunni Islamic jihadists drawn from elsewhere in the
Middle East and Europe, were initially welcomed by the
Syrian insurgency last year as an additional military
resource to help advance the common goal of deposing
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The fight also
acquired a sectarian tone, with insurgents increasingly
rallying their fighters against Mr. Assad’s dominant
minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Amid concerns about ISIS’s plans, other rebel groups
are looking to Jabhat al-Nusra as a counterbalance and
have been teaming up with it on the battlefield.
Last week, mounting tensions between the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria and other rebel groups exploded into
clashes that have raged across northern Syria, left
hundreds dead and further shattered the battle lines in
a conflict that is increasingly destabilizing neighboring
countries. Rebel fighters have driven the group from a
number of areas in recent days, and this WED 8 JAN
2014 they
ejected ISIS from its headquarters in the major city of
Aleppo, dealing the group a sharp reversal.
“In the beginning, we went out to the streets because we
refused the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad,” said
Mohammed, the Jabhat al-Nusra fighter. “And we
aren’t going to let any other dictatorship like Islamic
State of Syria & Iraq ISIS rule us. That’s what they are: a
dictatorship.
When ISIS emerged as a force in March, all the foreign
fighters hailing from places such as Chechnya, Tunisia
and Algeria — left to join the Islamic Radical group ISIS
The Nusra Front, one of Syria’s most powerful rebel
groups, which has also declared allegiance to Al Qaeda
but whose fighters have remained closer to Syria’s
other rebel organizations has fought
alongside other rebel groups against the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria ISIS in recent days.
The difference between the two Qaeda affiliates has
more to do with their approach than with their way of
thinking, analysts say. “Their ideologies are very much
the same, but Nusra is really embedding itself in the
Islamic landscape, working with other groups and
trying to compromise, while ISIS has been doing the
opposite, which is why they have no more friends,” said
Aron Lund, a researcher who edits a website on the
Syria conflict for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
Rebel groups fighting Assad say they see Jabhat
al-Nusra as key
to curbing ISIS’s expansion
in rebel-held areas and are
keen to reach out to the rebel Nusra Front
“The rebels avoided confronting ISIS in the beginning
because they didn’t want to be distracted from fighting
the regime,” the activist Abdul-Rahman Ismael said by
Skype from Aleppo. “They hoped that ISIS would help
topple the regime but found otherwise, so it became
necessary to fight ISIS before fighting the regime.”
Opposition activists who have compared the ISIS heavy-
handed tactics to those of Mr. Assad’s government were
glad to see it pushed from Aleppo. One of them, who
goes by the nom de guerre of Abu Fatih, said the group’s
fighters accused him and his colleagues of being
heretics, evicted them from their office and barred
them from smoking in the street.
“Now my neighborhood has been liberated twice,” he
said. “Once from the Assad regime and the second time
from ISIS.”
